Senate Democrats just emerged from an hour-long meeting to discuss the tax filing errors that have thrown Tom Daschle’s nomination as health secretary into disarray. That Daschle’s former colleagues are vociferously supporting him is to be expected, but Democrats were surprisingly confident that the former Senate leader would ascend to President Obama’s Cabinet.
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