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Posted at 2:51pm on May 31, 2008 A Fair Reflection of the DNC
Dems being Dems being Dems being Dems.
By Mark Kilmer
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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