DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee

[Wretched Excess]

Give Florida and Michigan half their delegates.

Is that a suggestion or a report?

A report.  They met today and just wrapped up.

How funny -- they caved.  Now it is unfair to BOTH hussein and mrs. clinton.

This is the BEST outcome for us and for Operation Chaos!!

Great news!

Typical idiot dems that can't make a hard decision or stick to a rule.

they wound up in the same place the republicans started out for the same infraction.  what happened in MI is a little anti-democratic, but I think that is the best outcome they could have hoped for from the rules comte.

[Chris_]

they wound up in the same place the republicans started out for the same infraction.  what happened in MI is a little anti-democratic, but I think that is the best outcome they could have hoped for from the rules comte.

No it isn't. 

#1 -- this isn't a "democratic" issue -- it is an issue about how the parties determine their candidate.
#2 -- the DNC was 100% clear on what would happen if FL and MI moved their elections.  FL and MI flipped off the DNC and told them to go pound sand.  The DNC (initally) executed on their promise.
#3 -- hussein took the DNC at their word and didn't campaign.  mrs. clinton also did so, but hedged her bet a bit.  Neither got the result from their actions had the DNC just did what they said they would.
#4 -- this now tells all States that, at least for the democratic party, there is no significant downside to moving their primaries up to, say, the Feb 1, 2008 for the 2012 primaries.  The repercussions from this complete lack of backbone will reverberate for decades.

"Count every vote" is as stupid a meme as "Bush was selected."  But the Left lives on memes and are now hoisted on this one.

May they have a long and contentious primary season, with a permanently divisive Convention.

PS: New idea: mrs. clinton is threatening through back channels that if she doesn't get the nod, she will go independent.  Scorched Earth.

 

[Wretched Excess]

they wound up in the same place the republicans started out for the same infraction.  what happened in MI is a little anti-democratic, but I think that is the best outcome they could have hoped for from the rules comte.

No it isn't. 

#1 -- this isn't a "democratic" issue -- it is an issue about how the parties determine their candidate.
#2 -- the DNC was 100% clear on what would happen if FL and MI moved their elections.  FL and MI flipped off the DNC and told them to go pound sand.  The DNC (initally) executed on their promise.
#3 -- hussein took the DNC at their word and didn't campaign.  mrs. clinton also did so, but hedged her bet a bit.  Neither got the result from their actions had the DNC just did what they said they would.
#4 -- this now tells all States that, at least for the democratic party, there is no significant downside to moving their primaries up to, say, the Feb 1, 2008 for the 2012 primaries.  The repercussions from this complete lack of backbone will reverberate for decades.

"Count every vote" is as stupid a meme as "Bush was selected."  But the Left lives on memes and are now hoisted on this one.

May they have a long and contentious primary season, with a permanently divisive Convention.

PS: New idea: mrs. clinton is threatening through back channels that if she doesn't get the nod, she will go independent.  Scorched Earth.

 

we've been through all this, FD.  twice.  well, except for #4.  that one is new, I think.

[Chris_]

they wound up in the same place the republicans started out for the same infraction.  what happened in MI is a little anti-democratic, but I think that is the best outcome they could have hoped for from the rules comte.

No it isn't. 

#1 -- this isn't a "democratic" issue -- it is an issue about how the parties determine their candidate.
#2 -- the DNC was 100% clear on what would happen if FL and MI moved their elections.  FL and MI flipped off the DNC and told them to go pound sand.  The DNC (initally) executed on their promise.
#3 -- hussein took the DNC at their word and didn't campaign.  mrs. clinton also did so, but hedged her bet a bit.  Neither got the result from their actions had the DNC just did what they said they would.
#4 -- this now tells all States that, at least for the democratic party, there is no significant downside to moving their primaries up to, say, the Feb 1, 2008 for the 2012 primaries.  The repercussions from this complete lack of backbone will reverberate for decades.

"Count every vote" is as stupid a meme as "Bush was selected."  But the Left lives on memes and are now hoisted on this one.

May they have a long and contentious primary season, with a permanently divisive Convention.

PS: New idea: mrs. clinton is threatening through back channels that if she doesn't get the nod, she will go independent.  Scorched Earth.

 

we've been through all this, FD.  twice.  well, except for #4.  that one is new, I think.

Were we?

Damn, the mind is the first thing to go.  Well, almost.

But you might want to think through #4 and mrs. c going indy...

And I am not wrong on 1-3 -- ;)