Lanny Davis sort of blames Dean for the NC debate stoppage...says he should resign.

[madfloridian]

That is if he had anything to do with it. But when pushed on Fox News, Lanny changed the subject to attacking Obama. That is, I swear, the first I heard someone blame Dean for stopping that debate.

But after the way the ABC debate turned so ugly....I would say kudos to whomever stopped that NC debate.

From TPM:

Hillary Supporter Lanny Davis: Howard Dean Should Resign If He Nixed North Carolina Debate

"Hillary backer Lanny Davis, the unofficial raging id of the Hillary campaign (or one of them, anyway), pushed the envelope pretty hard in a Fox News interview a little while ago, saying that Howard Dean should resign as DNC chair if he had anything to do with killing the North Carolina debate.

Davis said:

If Howard Dean had anything to do with this he should resign as national chairman. He has compromised himself completely.
Asked if he thought Dean did in fact have something to do with nixing the debate, Davis demurred, and pivoted off the question into a denunciation of Obama.

As I've noted here before, the tensions between Dean and Hillary's top fundraisers and surrogates has simmered behind the scenes for weeks now over Dean's inability to get the Florida and Michigan standoffs resolved. The other day, those tensions boiled over when Hillary's top donors teed off on Dean publicly for his suggestion that super-delegates should begin deciding who to support "starting now."

TPM says it is the first time a Clinton supporter has called for him to resign....but it is not.

Florida Hillary superdelegate publicly demands Dean resign...Corrine Brown.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown places the blame for the delegate flap squarely on DNC Chairman Howard Dean.

"I think Howard Dean should fix the problem or resign," Brown exclaims during an interview at First Coast News studios.

Brown insists that Florida's delegates be seated at the convention according to the results of the January primary.

"And after what happened in 2000 in Florida, elections is a raw nerve for people in Florida. And you should not mess with us! And you should not mistreat us in Florida," she says.

Keep up the good work, Howard Dean. When you are pissing off Lanny Davis, you must be doing something right.