Is Tom Daschle doing a good job as minority leader?

lol - which one is which?

I don't understand what you are asking.

it was (intended to be): I can't tell the difference between an elephant and a fat white guy.....

<sigh> not very funny perhaps, but definitely less funny now that I've explained it....

lol - guess I'll cross comedy off my "future professions" list :)

Hard to know where to begin with this guy. Recently read he thinks the war is going just great; Bush lite. Let him be an obscure senator; we desperately need a new majority leader, as the Bushies get more fringe all the time. Step down, Tom. Take your pension and go away.

Daschle should be allowed to serve as minority leader for the remainder of the year. However, I think that it is about time that he is replaced. He has been leader for 10 years and we have spend most that time as the minority party. My only concern is that he is likely to be replaced by a ally of his who will probably act identically as a leader, Harry Reid. Both, seem to be popular in the senate caucus but are moderates and come from conservative states. Reid is even pro-life. I would prefer to have someone like Chris Dodd as the democratic leader in the Senate.

the GOP doesn't do that, why the hell should we? We need leaders who are in SAFE districts so they can LEAD, not from conservative states where they are always looking over their shoulder at a Republican taking their spot.

because he is pro-life. If Daschle steps down my guess is Dodd will run and probably win. Reid will stay as whip.

Richard Durbin, Maria Cantwell, Jeff Bingaman, Patty Murray.

Someone who would be on TV every day, keeping warm LIHOP, Halliburton, Anthrax, Delay's legal problems, Bring It On, WMD, etc.

To be Bush's main opposition. Like it or not, being an opposition leader is all about political attacks.

I get the sense this will be an unpopular choice… I agree that what ever happens after November Dashcel needs to go, we need a more assertive, consistent and competent leader in the Senate… the candidates for the job as I see it are…

Sn. Chris Dodd (D-CT)

Sn. Harry Reid (D-NV)

Sn. Barbra Boxer (D-CA)

Sn. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

Sn. Jo Biden (D-DE)

Sn. Evan Bayh (D-IN)

Sn. Russ Feingold (D-WI)

Sn. “Jay” Rockefeller (D-WV)

Sn. Bill Nelson (D-FL)

Of these I’d say Dodd, Biden, Nelson and Clinton have the best shots at getting the senate leadership… Clinton is the weakest of these four in my view, but then again I think she shouldn’t run in “08” if we where to lose in November… Biden is the next weakest of the candidates as he will find it hard to shake off the image of an old “hack” and added to this I’m not sure that he would want the job but then again he did toy with a run for the nomination and probably only stayed out because he saw Dean as a train wreck in the making and decided to stand aside and wait till 2008, Dodd would be a good choice however he does hail from a traditionally Democratic state in the north east which might be compounded by opponents with his liberal voting record, Nelson is relatively new to the senate however he has a long career in the house to back him up as well as that “must have item” for so many democrats recently a military record however he is getting on, but he is a good moderate to liberal candidate for the Senate leadership and I would say he would be the best choice having said that I’d say that Biden and Dodd stand a better chance of winning any ballot…

The rumor was that when Daschle was considering running for president Dodd and Reid began calling senators to try to get votes. Dodd was apparently considering challenging Daschle anyway but decided against it. Dodd lost in 1994 to Daschle by 1 vote that was placed by Ben Campbell who swiched parties soon after. Well, Reid had the votes to beat Dodd if Daschle had retired.

Boxer's too liberal and too polarizing and Clinton is after her own presidential ambitions most likely and wouldn't be effective leading the party in the Senate. Biden seems settled in at his top position on the Foreign Relations Committee. Bayh is too conservative to lead the party and Feingold is probably too liberal and too much of a maverick. Bill Nelson needs more experience, I think. He is a fairly loyal democrat but he needs a few more years of experience to be a leader of the very complicated Senate. Jay Rockefeller seems like an intersting possibility but I don't know if he is interested.

Byron Dorgan is probably interested in it because he is part of the Daschle-Reid-Dorgan alliance that runs the leadership in the Senate.

or one of my other choices listed above.

has a plan. That he is setting the 'Pubs up. That he is doing a rope-a-dope. But the 1-2 punch never comes.

:sigh:

and should have been replaced after 2002 election but now I think it would be best to wait till after this election before replacing him. Give him this one last chance, if the Democrats do badly in November replace him.