Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Meet the Press: He was complaining -- complaining!! -- about the Clinton campaign wanting to "change the rules" after the fact (referring to the Michigan and Florida Democrat primary voters).
Hey you Dick, er, um, hey Dick -- read this post. You a-holes only care about rules -- and laws -- when they suit you.
UPDATE: Mark Finkelstein has more over at Newsbusters, noting that Durbin's co-guest, NY Senator Chuckie Shumer, admits that Clinton's and Obama's word ain't any good:
TIM RUSSERT: Senator Schumer, Senator Clinton said in October "you know it's clear this election they're having in Michigan is not going to count for anything." Is that your position?CHARLES SCHUMER: Well, no. Here's the bottom line once again, Tim. Each candidate of course takes the position that benefits them at the moment.
Again -- never believe a Democrat who whines about "counting all the votes" (among many other things)!
UPDATE 2: Here's the AP's report (via the News Journal) about the Clinton camp wanting to change the rules:
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.
There's that "disenfranchised" word again. Funny how it wasn't a big concern when the party "punished" the two states, eh?
Mr. Ickes needs to shut the hell up. Until his party gets rid of the undemocratic superdelegates, which unto themselves are a way of disenfranchising the will of millions of voters, then he's got no room to talk.
What a hack.
Posted by: Mike Matthews at February 17, 2008 02:43 PMIt's interesting to me that anyone would need to have Sen. Clinton's change of heart on Michigan and Florida laid out for them. Her campaign has made no effort to hide it or even believably spin it into anything more than what it is: a desperate grab for delegates.
Posted by: Joe M at February 17, 2008 04:51 PM