Thank God For John Thune

Today, Tom Daschle is nothing more than some former schlepping his self-aggrandizing resume around DC, looking for a buck. And we can be thankful for that!

In today's WaPo, Daschle waves high his Sept. Tenner banner as he works to re-interpret the Congessional actions on Sept. 14, 2001 as restrictive of the president's right to take extraordinary but appropriate force to defend America from al Qaeda.

It's noteworthy that this debate took place not after the first WTC attack, not after the Cole attack, not after the African embassy attacks, but after George W. Bush was elected, and after al Qaeda scored its first major hit -- but not its first hit. It's noteworthy that Daschle never moved such a resolution as Senate majority leader on the numerous occasions during his tenure when such a resolution would have been legitimate.

Capt. Ed gets it right:

Can you imagine that, in the days when the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center still dominated the nightly news, Congress would have passed a resolution barring the US from pursuing terrorists within the United States, implicitly or explicitly? The American people would have held 535 recall elections by October 20th and tossed every last Representative and Senator out on their ear -- and Tom Daschle damned well knows it.