Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is about to take some unwelcome friendly fire from former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle who uses his new textbook on the Senate to slam the chamber he left in 2005 as a poor example for emerging democracies.

“If we’re the standard by which other Democracies and republics judge themselves, we’ve lowered the bar,” he writes in The U.S. Senate, adding, “it’s vital for us to do a better job than we’re doing today, and that must begin, as much as anywhere, in the Senate.”