After Daschle's cave-in on authorizing an invasion of Iraq, can there be any reasonable argument for maintaining the current Democratic control of the U.S. Senate? Daschle not only betrayed those who opposed giving this President such a broad mandate, based as it was on lies and contempt for the citizen, but he also undercut the raison d'etre for a Democratic Senate: slowing down judicial nominations. No true liberal can countenance the slaughter of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians simply to prevent the appointment of conservatives to the appellate courts. A good rule of thumb should be, if your Senator or Representative votes against authorization, vote for him; if he votes for authorization, and he is a Democrat up for reelection, don't vote at all in that race, and let the chips fall where they may.