Severance

This article about creating severance packages for Senator Daschle's staff has generated several emails, especially from the staff of former Congressmen from both parties saying they didn't get anything like this.  I'm not sure how common it is, but I've never heard of it and several emailers are in high dudgeon.  I can't imagine this being very popular in SD, but, then again, the Argus Leader is maintaining strict radio silence, i.e. they haven't said a word about it, so I don't think many people know about it.