It's just a guy feeling,based on observation and history. No way can he survive as majority leader with EVERYBODY against him. He already had all the conservatives pissed,and now he has the Republican lefties and the Dims mad at him,too.
If this can be believed, is this resignation from the majority leadership office or from the Senate itself?
Again,I am just GUESSING,but I'd say he is going to end up resigning his Senate seat,too. Otherwise people would be rubbing his face in his own stupidity every day,and damn few people can face up to that.
The good news here most people seem to be missing is that this also indicates a split amongst Dim groups. Daschle,Bubbette!,and others want to see him stay because they can bitch slap him into doing anything they want,yet another group (the CBC) want his hide nailed to the wall,and they don't care about him being in the pockets of the DNC leadership.
Daschle's defense of Lott came before the results of the Louisiana runoff were known. He was still hedging his bets because Lott is his kind of Republican "leader" (i.e. too limp-spined to lead even with a clear majority). Daschle has changed his tune at least somewhat now that Lott's removal means that a 50-50 split is assured.
My own theory as to Daschle's change of heart regarding Lott is that there is one and only one RINO ready to leap like Jeffords, and Daschle just doesn't see the one scenario in which he would not get a lot of undeserved power (Lott heading to the back of the Republican bench, a strong leader willing to run the Senate by the majority of VP replacing him) happening.
For now it seems to be a lot of noise and confusion signifying NOTHING........pleasing the media and the elected officials who are their cohorts........