Zell on Tom

Democratic Senator Zell Miller will be the keynote speaker tonight at the convention. In case you missed it, note what he said about Daschle in his recent book:

Senator Miller even goes after his party's leader in the Senate, Tom Daschle. He notes that Mr. Daschle's refusal to pass President Bush's request to create a Department of Homeland Security before the 2002 elections came back to haunt Mr. Miller's colleague, Senator Max Cleland, who was defeated largely on the issue. In fact, he blames Mr. Daschle directly for the Cleland defeat, saying the Minority Leader's actions made it possible to hang a "personal albatross of partisan wrangling on homeland security" around Senator Cleland's neck.

The book takes care to praise many Democrats, including several of the current presidential candidates. But he also compares his party's preening before special interest groups to "streetwalkers in skimpy halters and hot pants plying their age-old trade for the fat wallets of 'K Street.' "