[mwl1]

Why Daschle is prolonging the obvious and hurting his own caucus is beyond me... GWB has him by the short hairs... he is not going to escape a vote without paying a severe political price... he should just have the vote and get it out of the way... RATs must be terrified by the impact from the far left, or Daschle is just plain stupid. Anybody have thoughts?

[AmericanInTokyo]

It does indeed appear that Mr. Daschle has been seized by the testicles on this one. :-)

[Carolinamom]

I vote for stupid. Amazing, isn't it, that this little napoleon thinks that he's somebody?

[colorado tanker]

"Daschle is just plain stupid. Anybody have thoughts?" Setting aside my strong personal feelings about Daschle, I interprete his remarks this morning as a non-response, a placeholder. He wants to look at the polls and talk to his leadership before doing anything. If the public rallies as I think and the Prsident and many Senators, including McCain, start demanding a vote, Daschle will probably start wearing an American flag tie and claiming Iraq was his idea all along.

BTW, it would not surprise me if Bush and Blair have already laid the groundwork for some kind of a compromise Security Council resolution that would be a nonauthorization authorization, something like Saddam has one month to comply with all U.N. resolutions and if not any U.N. member would be in its rights to enforce same in its self defense, or some such gobbledygook. If so, the Dims will line up behind Bush claiming U.N. cover. Just a thought.