Clinton, Inc. Gets Into Gear
February 17th, 2008 at 02:16am Mark Noonan
This will surprise no one, other than starry-eyed leftists who think that the Democratic party is other than a machine for dispensing government swag to the highest bidder:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign who voted for Democratic Party rules that stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates, now is arguing against the very penalty he helped pass.
In a conference call Saturday, the longtime Democratic Party member contended the DNC should reconsider its tough sanctions on the two states, which held early contests in violation of party rules. He said millions of voters in Michigan and Florida would be otherwise disenfranchised - before acknowledging moments later that he had favored the sanctions.
Ickes explained that his different position essentially is due to the different hats he wears as both a DNC member and a Clinton adviser in charge of delegate counting. Clinton won the primary vote in Michigan and Florida, and now she wants those votes to count.
No chance that Ickes would have advised Hillary that, hey, them’s the rules and you have to live by them - nope, none of that at Clinton, Inc. Its whatever works - as I said last year, short of rape and murder, there is nothing Hillary and Co. won’t do to win.
Now, Hillary doesn’t really need the Florida and Michigan delegations - the super delegates would still be enough to swing the nomination her way provided she can have a plausible story that she, and not Obama, won the primaries. Its already pretty much a given that Obama will have won more States by convention time, and he’ll probably have a higher number of pledged delegates - but if Hillary can come in with more popular votes as well as victories in the crucial-for-Democrats blue States (such as California, New York, New Jersey, etc.), she’ll have a strong argument to the super delegates for their coming down on her side.
This doesn’t mean all this would work (Hillary will still have to do well in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas to keep her popular vote total high), but it shows that Hillary will not go quietly. Get ready for a political brawl for the Democratic nomination.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Corruption, Democrats
10 Comments
1. phnx | February 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Seems Ickes was for stripping the delgates of Michigan and Florida before he was for restoring them. I love the twisted logic pretzel he is using to justify this 180 degree shift.
The Clinton corruption machine is alive and well counting or should I say under counting votes in NY.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162008/news/regionalnews/obama_robbed_in_ny_97932.htm
How is it possible that 80 districts have these problems? Several heavily black districts register ZERO votes for Obama?
This is amusing especially coming from the party which accused the Republicans of stealing the election. Now we are begining to see who the real thiefs are. It not a pretty site, and its going to get uglier before a candidate is finally chosen by the Dems.
I’m loving every minute of their turmoil.
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3. NeoClown | February 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
“there is nothing Hillary and Co. won’t do to win.”
And that is exactly the kind of leadership America needs. A President that’s willing to do whatever it takes.
I wish Dubya had been willing to do whatever it takes to prevent 9/11.
I wish Dubya had been willing to do whatever it takes to win in Iraq. (In under 100 years.)
I wish Dubya had been willing to do whatever it takes to keep the US economy out of the tank.
Politics is a cut throat business and should not be left to bored frat boys.
4. SEW | February 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
NeoClown, Your post is the most absurdly funny post yet! No to Leno & Letterman, yes to NeoClown.
5. phnx | February 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Wait Neoclown, I thought you were against Bush for illegal wire taps, waterboarding, invading Iraq, and violating your cuvil rights. Why have you suddenly changed?
6. NeoClown | February 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Phnx,
I haven’t changed.
Bush doesn’t need his illegal wiretaps.
Prior to 9/11 both Condi and Dubya were notified that OBL was preparing to attack inside the US with airplanes. They did nothing.
Waterboarding it torture and real Americans don’t torture. Let me waterboard your sorry ass. I bet that within 5 minutes I can get you to vote for Hillary and confess to anything I want you too.
Invading Iraq was the act of a moron. The management of the Iraqi war has been criminal neglect.
Bush crapping on the Constitution does not make him a good leader it just makes him a criminal.
7. TiredofLibBullSh** | February 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Wow, assclown……..
Everytime Bush tries to do a portion of “whatever it takes” there are the Liberals blocking the way YET AGAIN!!!
As soon as the Democrats had control of the Senate, there was Daschle standing in his way, because the liberals felt that Bush was not the President.
Bush could not do what it takes in Iraq because anything that was negative there were the liberals again standing in the way.
Fighting terrorists’ funding the liberals published the methods used to track their funding. That ended that.
The economy in the tank? What have liberals offered to do about that? Oil prices rise, liberals fight new sources. Gasoline prices rise, liberals fight the construction of new refining. Medical costs rise, liberals fight to protect the trial lawyers and free health care for illegals. The liberals want control of 1/7 of the economy through their nationalized medicine. The lists go on and on.
You want a President that can do whatever it takes? You already support a party that hinders any effort to do a fraction of whatever it takes. But if that is what you want - be careful what you wish for you may get it.
8. phnx | February 17th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
but but you said: “And that is exactly the kind of leadership America needs. A President that’s willing to do whatever it takes.”
“Whatever it takes”, sounds pretty clear that you are now in favor of all those icky things that Bush has been accused of authorizing. You were either lying then or lying now. Just when you were winning me over with your rapier like wit and logic. How can I trust you now? I’m soooo disillusioned.
9. NeoClown | February 18th, 2008 at 3:03 am
TiredBushit,
Until now the liberals in the Senate have given Dubya everything he’s asked for. They can’t back down on the warrantless wiretapping because they will use that in Dubya’s criminal trial.
phlux,
I’m glad you’ve admitted that Bushco is corrupt and guilty of much wrong doing. Dubya’s criminal trials will probably begin in late 2009.
10. TiredofLibBullShit | February 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Assclown:
“Until now the liberals in the Senate have given Dubya everything he’s asked for. They can’t back down on the warrantless wiretapping because they will use that in Dubya’s criminal trial.”
Oh, so then warrantless wiretaps will be OK in that case?
Ried has given Bush everything he’s wanted? Then why the political posturing of outrage on Ried’s part?
Typical.
Criminal trial? Do hold your breath.