Senators are keeping their powder dry today over Tom Daschle’s tax situation, waiting to speak out until his closed-door meeting with the Senate Finance Committee this evening. One exception over the weekend was Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.). Some news outlets quoted selectively from his appearance yesterday on This Week, to note simply that he wants to know more about Daschle’s details, but DeMint actually went a lot further than that:

“I can see why liberals don’t mind if the tax rate goes up because they’re not going to pay it anyway.”