Thomas Daschle: “I was asked questions everywhere I went pertaining to the Senator's first question, and that, of course, is what is…”

“I was asked questions everywhere I went pertaining to the Senator's first question, and that, of course, is what is going to happen in Iraq? The second question is, What is going to happen to my economic circumstance? I talked to one businessman who had to lay off a couple of his employees, and it hurt him dearly. They had worked for him for a long period of time. He said: Tom, I have no choice. I talked to people who had their health insurance dropped, in part because business was so bad their employer could no longer sustain the cost incurred of paying their health insurance. They said: We understand, but at least we got to keep our job. But what are you going to do about it? That is the question. What are we going to do about it? What will the majority do about it? What message are we going to send to those people to whom we must show some empathy if, indeed, these conversations with our constituents mean anything at all?”