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The President's own words aside, all three White House correspondents covered the demise of Tom Daschle's Cabinet ambitions. "Government ethics groups and even some Democrats raised questions and Republicans and editorial writers called on him to step aside," reported CBS' Chip Reid, quoting The New York Times' editorialist that Daschle's confirmation "would send a terrible message to the public." ABC's Jake Tapper looked at Daschle's withdrawal from his point of view, arguing that healthcare reform would need to be bipartisan when Daschle had become "polarizing" and "controversial." NBC's Chuck Todd argued it from the White House's point of view: to get the nominee confirmed it would have to twist arms in the Senate at the same time as lobbying for fiscal stimulus. "They made a choice…stimulus matters more than Tom Daschle."
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