The New York Times has an article today headlined "On Capitol Hill, the Majority Doesn't Always Rule." Excerpt:
Already, there is a new verb floating around the Capitol: "Daschled." It describes what can happen to those, like the Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, who oppose Republican legislation and then lose re-election in heavily Republican states. That fate, and the result of the presidential race, left Democrats looking ashen on the morning after Election Day. In South Dakota, Senator Tim Johnson, despairing over Mr. Daschle's defeat, said he wasn't returning colleagues' calls. Later that day, another Senate Democrat, on his way back to Washington, said grimly of Republicans: "They'll get everything they want now."(Via DVT.)
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