The Great Falls (MT) Tribune has an editorial today headlined "Amid unknowns, federal energy bill a certainty." Excerpt:
Whatever winds up in the [energy] bill, its chances of passage were enhanced by the electoral defeat of Tom Daschle, the minority leader from South Dakota who for the past three years orchestrated much of the Senate opposition.
Senator Grassley agrees with this conclusion according to AgriNews:
Grassley said that without a doubt the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat was a major victory for President Bush. "So many of the president's programs involving even things connected with agriculture were buried in the Daschle graveyard in the U.S. Senate either because he held things up or because there were so many Democratic filibusters,'' Grassley said. "Daschle's defeat sends a signal to other Democrats that those tactics are not appropriate.'' Grassley said he thinks Daschle's likely successor Sen. Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, will be much less partisan. The energy bill is one issue Grassley hopes to see quick action on after it was held up for so long by Daschle.
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