The Lessons of Daschle: Can Obama Reboot?

Obama promised to free Washington from the grip of special interests. Now he has to deliver

Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP

Former Senator Tom Daschle

In his book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama offered a paean to the glories of flying on private jets. He lovingly described his first trip on a Citation X: "The plane took off, its Rolls-Royce engines gripping the air the way a well-made sports car grips the road ... I could see how people might get used to this." The punch line of the story was that Obama's staff asked him to give up the practice, which was legal, because he was the Democrats' Senate point man on ethics reform. "It was the right thing...

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