RBC Saturday
This election season, I feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy held the football. It will all be over by Super Tuesday. (swipe - arrrrgh!) It will all be over by Supersonic Tuesday. (swipe - arrrrgh!) Just one more primary, one more caucus, one more debate, and it will all be settled. (swipe - arrrrgh!) This won't go past March, April – no, really, we have high confidence that May will see a final conclusion. (swipe - arrrrgh!) Come the first week of June, we can all start gearing up for the General Election. (swipe - arrrrgh!) Only Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota to go! (swipe - arrrrgh!) OK, let's go to the Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee. They'll settle Florida and Michigan, and we'll call it a primary. Ummm ... unless we have to appeal to the Credentials Committee, maybe the floor of the convention. (swipe - arrrrgh!)
Speaker Pelosi calls this the “scorched earth strategy,” and vows to “step in” to head off a convention floor fight. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi has not enjoyed positive results from her ultimatums, of late. In fact, Harold Wolfson, Communications Director for the Clinton Campaign, responded with a blatant: we-have-great-respect-for-the-speaker-but-we’ll-do-as-we-please-thank-you line to signal how seriously they take her. I wonder how the fact that the Democratic Party ignores both its rules and its penalties will play for the general electorate, come November.
And, why can’t they return from lunch on time?
This election season, I feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy held the football. It will all be over by Super Tuesday. (swipe - arrrrgh!) It will all be over by Supersonic Tuesday. (swipe - arrrrgh!) Just one more primary, one more caucus, one more debate, and it will all be settled. (swipe - arrrrgh!) This won't go past March, April – no, really, we have high confidence that May will see a final conclusion. (swipe - arrrrgh!) Come the first week of June, we can all start gearing up for the General Election. (swipe - arrrrgh!) Only Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota to go! (swipe - arrrrgh!) OK, let's go to the Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee. They'll settle Florida and Michigan, and we'll call it a primary. Ummm ... unless we have to appeal to the Credentials Committee, maybe the floor of the convention. (swipe - arrrrgh!)
Speaker Pelosi calls this the “scorched earth strategy,” and vows to “step in” to head off a convention floor fight. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi has not enjoyed positive results from her ultimatums, of late. In fact, Harold Wolfson, Communications Director for the Clinton Campaign, responded with a blatant: we-have-great-respect-for-the-speaker-but-we’ll-do-as-we-please-thank-you line to signal how seriously they take her. I wonder how the fact that the Democratic Party ignores both its rules and its penalties will play for the general electorate, come November.
And, why can’t they return from lunch on time?
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4 comments:
Fe...look forward to hearing from your Mom.
I'm very much into the political scene, but this has gone on way too long. I used to listen to every word that was out there and now I don't even tune in to the PBS evening news. If it could be my way, all the candidates would have the same amount of money to spend, the same amount of air time, all primaries would be held on the same day....and we would not spend so many months getting there. What we could better do with all that money!
Thanks Fe. I don't have a counter on my Journal, but I'm with you regarding the current administration. Our daughter is the Chief of Staff for the Dems at the County Legislature and used to be a congressional aide (7 years). She has had some good experience in both positions and will probably run for office someday. She and my husband have both run locally, but it is difficult to break into a system that has been one party for 150 years! I can't find your email address since I emptied my trash. Will write more to you through that venue. Lori
GO OBAMA.....
Hello again....So interesting that you have the horse connection!
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