Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services?

I'm a big fan of Tom Daschle, so I'm happy to see that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the former Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

"This is a perfect role for Daschle," writes The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn.  "Although he has always been interested in health care, in the last few years he's become a true wonk on the subject, publishing a book called Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. It urges precisely the sorts of reforms President-Elect Obama and his congressional allies are promoting right now."

Still more on Daschle's appointment at the Huffington Post.