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Tom Daschle says he doesn't want to run for president, putting an end to literally minutes of wonder among armchair pundits. In a way, that's too bad, because his entire political career was based on the fact that nobody can find anything wrong with him. It's a powerful force, and I think he could have followed it all the way to the presidency.

Oh well. We'll just have to cross him off our Program of Political Pondering. I guess we can take all the moments that we *would* have used to think about Tom Daschle, and use them to think about Chris Dodd instead. All the not caring you were doing about Daschle? Get ready to do it about Dodd, because he's my new pick to snooze his way into the White House.