hara-kiri

So I suspect Daschle made it easier for Obama by committing hara-kiri.

Saying a prayer by the water's edge, he committed hara-kiri.

It was with this short sword that the famous hara-kiri was committed.

Now, my readers will understand that hara-kiri, or seppuku, was not a mere suicidal process.

Civil war in America; universal hara-kiri in Europe; the dry rot of wealth wasting itself in self-indulgence.

He took it with the expression of one to whom a nice, shiny blade has just been handed for purposes of hara-kiri.