Like today will decide anything…

31. May 2008 by admin.

The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting today to decide what to do with the delegates from the errant states of Michigan and Florida.  Conventional wisdom is they will be Solomonic and divide the delegates in twain, either by allowing only 1/2 of the delegates to be seated or giving each only half a vote (note to the DNC: do the latter.  The delegates are going to be a lot angrier about being kept away from the convention than not given a full vote.  They’re going to Denver to PARTY, and 1/2 a vote justifies their attendance.)

This will end nothing.

Sen. Carl Levin has already said he will appeal any ruling that doesn’t result in the entirety of Michigan’s delegates being seated with full voting rights.

This has taken on a life of its own.  Democratic voters in both states are threatening to cross party lines and vote Republican in November; both Democratic leaders in Congress are leaning on uncommited Superdelegates (do they have their undies outside of their longjohns and wear pansy red booties?) to finally get off the damn fence; and the Speaker of the House using the term “scorched earth” to describe any future Clintonian attempts to take the fight to the convention.  I think Nancy is wrong.

Let the fight go to the convention.  It would make for great theatre, and would draw attention to the convention like nothing has in YEARS.   Incorporate mud wrestling bouts between Obamaites and Clintonings as side shows/reality t.v. spinoffs.  Let the whole thing be settled in a death match with wild tigers a la Gladiator.  Let the victor eat the losers spouse and children.  After all the whetting our appitites have gotten for blood throughout the nominating process, it would be a terrible disappointment to see all of this get settled in a dry meeting of lawyers.

Unless afterwards they were all defenestrated into a pit of alligators.  That would be cool.

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