A Daschle Defeat Bad For Republicans?

Meanwhile, William Stuntz believes the increasingly likely voter-enforced retirement of Tom Daschle could be bad news for Republicans in the long run.

He fears that the Democratic Party, without the moderating influence of Gephardt and Daschle will veer so far to the left that the Congress will become truly unmanagable.

Perhaps, but if Democrats act as Stuntz predicts, we only have to put up with them for two years, before voters toss them into the dustbin of history, along with the Whigs.