Who put the hit out on Tom Daschle?

  Sometimes when a bomb goes off one oughta ask: who planted it? In the case of the Daschle debacle, no one is asking why his relationship with Leo Hindery suddenly became so problematic and why the Left didn't go to the mattresses for the man who was well positioned --warts and all-- to nationalize American health care.   These things never happen by accident. Someone fed the press and flogged the story. Someone who wanted Daschle to go down hard. And trust me, the Republicans haven't planted a story this good in the DC press in years.   Notice Daschle was sailing towards confirmation until all these details about his links to Leo Hindery came out....beyond just the tax lapses.  

Well, answer this question then. Who in the Democrat Party would be the most motivated to screw Leo Hindery to the wall and take his buddies along with him?

Answer: Someone who was on the receiving end of attack ads paid for by Hindery in a prior campaign, perhaps?

  I notice current Obama flack Robert Gibbs was the front man for this corporate hit group; so now a guy who made a living calling Howard Dean a pinko is explaining why Obama is peachy keen closing down Gitmo. And, of course, Gibbs was the prime cheerleader for Daschle's nomination.  (It's a small world, after all) 

 If Howard Dean and his buddies pulled off this covert op, well, they;ve moved up a notch in my book.   Frankly, I didn't think this white bread WASP had a streak of "Irish Alzheimers"...when a politician gets so old he forgets everything except the grudges. (this disease, BTW ,is why I blog under a pseudonym; too many CT Dems from the 80's and 90's have used my surname as an expletive).

 Even victory doesn't bind up all wounds. The spoils are always worth fighting over.  Watch more battles between the "real Left" and the "corporate Left" akin to the split between the "Official IRA" and the "Provisional IRA".