Cheney got a pass on a very similar issue four years ago. See: http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/3566

It would be nice to see this hurt Daschle, but it helps to keep straight which sauce goes on the goose and the gander (or which pot calls the other black... or [insert cliche here]).

(P.S. I am supporting Bush this election, as last time).

Anyone who has had to deal with cross border tax returns knows that each jurisdiction has its own rules, and generally recognizes no requirement that its rules should be consistent with those of a different jurisdiction.

You can thus easily wind up domiciled on more than one place (this one for the purposes of this tax, that one for the purpose of that tax or other piece of paperwork) even if you don't want to be.

Much as I dislike Daschle and much of what he stands for, I can see that this sort of mess must happen to people in Congress all the time, and as the Cheney example suggests on both sides of the aisle.

We could straighten all this out, but most likely at the expense of the Federalism (real ability for different jurisdictions to go their own ways) which is such a valued feature of our constitution. Tidy systems are not always the best systems, especially in politics. Better I think just to look the other way from time to time, as seems likely to happen here.