Hmmmm. Now we’re talking. Today on Meet the Press Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (reported here by Reuters and Agence-France Presse) made it clear that John Ashcroft faces a very tough nomination hearing, and that his confirmation is anything but assured. This flies in the face of what seems like an utterly wrong-headed prediction in today’s Washington Post that “barring a startling revelation, Ashcroft should win swift confirmation.”
“I think it’s very difficult for us as people who try to govern from the center to accept that kind of a nominee,” says Daschle.
You gotta love Tom Daschle, a steel fist in a velvet glove.