Also, if that's true, why did he reverse his position this past week on the unions and the right to work stuff? It's pretty clear from the article Daniels knows he screwed up this past week.
Just found this while googling Daniels.
Yes, he has had a bad couple months. Maybe subconsciously he doesn’t want to be president. Here is a link to Mitch doing what Walker is trying from the get go, SIX years ago-
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1409
Mitch Daniels decertified all public unions, entirely rescinding their collective-bargaining rights, on his first day in office in 2005. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, as a reminder, is seeking to limit collective-bargaining rights for most public-sector employees, with notable exceptions for public-safety workers: a much more modest, reform. In other words, Mitch Daniels has already done more on the issue of public-sector unions than Scott Walker is even attempting.
The Democratic minority in the Indiana legislature wields considerable power that Daniels has no choice but to deal with. In the Indiana House of Representatives, Republicans have 60 seats and Democrats 40. However, quorum in the Indiana House is 67. By contrast, in the Wisconsin Senate, a quorum of 20 senators is required to pass fiscal legislation, but only 17 are required to pass non-fiscal legislation; Republicans control 19 seats there. Hence, in Wisconsin, Republicans have the ability to pass a wide range of legislation while Democrats are absent. Not so in Indiana.
Quorum requirements are effectively quite similar to U.S. Senate filibusters, and unless those quorum requirements are modified, the Indiana minority can block all legislation. Indiana’s legislative calendar is only four months long, meaning that other pressing reforms that Daniels campaigned on will wither. It could cause the loss of about 20 other bills, including education reform, which it is worth mentioning, is fundamentally about challenging the interests and security of teachers’ unions.