A Fair Reflection of the DNC
Dems being Dems being Dems being Dems.
By Mark Kilmer Posted in 2008 | Democrats | DNC | meeting — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
A meeting of the Democratic National Committee's Rules & Bylaws Committee is not engaging television, no matter what the matter. Especially when you just don't care one way or the other.
Sort it out amongst yourselves. Yeah, right.
The real question was: Do they want to have rules? Short answer: not really.
Rules committee member Harold Ickes, Hillary's hit man, asked Congressman Mark Wexler, there from Florida for Obama, if he approved of the DNC's principle of "fair reflection." Wexler seemed unsure. Wexler seemed not to know of any principle by that name, but it has something to do with the delegate delegation reflecting the division of the popular vote.
Fair reflection is big with Ickes/Hillary, especially in Michigan. Ickes Levin went toe-toe-toe with Carl Levin on this matter, and Levin accused Ickes of desiring a "fair reflection of a flawed primary."
Some Obama people think that Barry should receive a fair reflection of those who voted non-committed. There was an unprecedented number of votes for "uncommitted," we're told, and exit polls and Ouija boards inform us that these people were really voting for Barry, who was not on the ballot.
There was a lot of talk of party unity, but it's always couched in terms of: "UNITY BEHIND MY CANDIDATE, NOT YOURS!" That doesn't work.
I watched on C-SPAN, when I wasn't out getting the groceries. It was also carried, I noticed when checking, by CNN and that other cable news network, the one with the always-outraged sportscaster. FNC carried their money shows in the AM and their general news after noon (ET).
They're going to vote after lunch, and they haven't made the case to me for why I should care. I'll be happy so long as it is a fair reflection of the State of the national Dem apparatus.
Next time I see Howard Dean, I am going to chant" FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! …"
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Levin was angry, as well.
Hillary's protesting supporters chanted that they're taking this to Denver. (The DNC credentials committee can meet wherever it opts to meet, though.)
Ickes threatened that this will continue.
Howard Dean ought to go into hiding.
I flipped it on and saw a recap of the opening statement by the chairwoman (I do not recall her name).
She kept returning to the fact that FL and MI did not follow the DNC calendar and as such should not count because they violated the rules. I guess the DNC now holds a Don't Count Every Vote policy; unless of course those votes go for Obama.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
Besides the fact the DNC is all in for Obama it would be the safe path to take.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
"unity behind my definition of racism" and similar liberal appeals for unity and understanding.
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Small is beautiful.
Levin went toe-toe-toe with Carl Levin on this matter
Unless you mean Mark Levin touched Carl Levin with three toes, or the MI Senator went toe to toe with himself.
In the DNC, anything's possible.
"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)