By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions
Tom Daschle withdraws.
I’ve tended to see President Obama’s reliance on old hands as an attempt to leapfrog over his lack of experience. Understandable. But he went too far in choosing a hack like Daschle, and now it’s time for some new blood, as opposed to blood on the floor.
Prediction: Tom Daschle will not be confirmed as secretary of health and human services. There’s a sleaziness to Daschle’s tax problems that’s absent from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s, which just seem boneheaded.