Daschle: Meaning that I have really worked largely in my public life preventing what I consider to be ill-advised things from becoming law. Daschle's critics have said that made him an obstructionist and, ironically, used it to help defeat him. But Daschle says he is proud that he stood up to the Republican White House. Daschle says, “They call it obstructionism. But I call it the noise of democracy. The noise of democracy, in my view, is something that ought to be protected and celebrated.” And remarkably, despite the White House-led battle to defeat him, Daschle bears no grudge against...