DVT has posted the complete lead editorial of today's edition of the Wall Street Journal headlined "The Daschle Two-Step." Excerpt:
[Senator Daschle] has been doing a political two-step his entire career. At home, he presents himself as a cultural conservative, a uniting force in Congress, and a prairie populist who only does what is "good for South Dakota." Yet back in the Beltway, Mr. Daschle is an iron-fisted partisan who leads (or follows) his liberal caucus in attacking most of Mr. Bush's agenda.
In 1978, when he was running for the House, and 1986, when he was running for the Senate, Daschle had members of the clergy in South Dakota write letters to constituents on his behalf declaring that Daschle was pro-life. Click HERE to view a pdf copy of the letters. In one such letter, Daschle stated "The truth is that I am unalterably opposed to abortion on demand." In 2002, Daschle wrote a fundraising letter on behalf of NARAL, stating that
"As the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, I've stood up for a woman's right to choose, and the pro-choice leadership of the Senate has made a difference by safeguarding women's rights from the anti-choice agenda of the Bush administration."
That's just one prime example of the Daschle Two-Step. Daschle presents himself as a cultural conservative at home, while in Washington he writes Bush-bashing fundraising letters for NARAL.
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