Do folks on the Dem Party rules committee really think they can tell the DNC to fuck off?

[RiverStone]

How can Wolfson even ponder that Hillary supporters on the big ol nasty rules committee could push through a dang thing? :shrug:

Logistically, do they have the muscle to "force" anything on Howard Dean and the DNC?

Wolfsen said it would go through the DNC; are not the DNC the ones who rightly penalized FLA/MI in the first place for breaking the rules? So I'm totally missing the logic in Wolfson's assumption.

From Raw Story (5/5/08):

He (Wolfson) was responding to reports that Clinton would unveil a "nuclear option" -- outlined by Tom Edsall at the Huffington Post -- to use her leverage on the Democratic Party's rules committee to force the party to seat Florida and Michigan. Those delegates could put Clinton over the top of Barack Obama in the race to be the party's presidential nominee.

Wolfson said there was no secret plan, and that Clinton's goal was simply to include all 50 states in the nominating process.

"We believe the delegations ought to be seated; the process of seating them is a transparent process, it is a public process, it goes through the DNC," Wolfson said. "Anyone reading that story would be surprised to see that our desire to have Florida and Michigan seated is somehow described as secret when we call almost daily for those delegations to be seated."

more:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Nuclear_option_Clinton_denies_plan_to_0505.html

[derby378]

1. FL and MI broke the rules - 'nuff said

This should be a slam-dunk, but no...

[Redbear]

2. They are the DNC as well.

FL and MI are appealing the decision of the chair.

[jsamuel]

3. lol, exactly, they ARE the DNC

[RiverStone]

5. Democratic Party 101 question:

Are they ALL the DNC? No extra players - they are the exact same folks?

So then would we have Hillary supporters on the DNC vs Obama supporters/Howard Dean on the DNC?

How is the composition of the Rules Committee determined?

What a clusterfuck.

[RiverStone]

4. So if they won their appeal (which seems unlikely)...

Not only would it tear apart the party at the management level, but it would tear apart the party with the voters as well.

Kinda reminds me of the flick - Mutiny On The Bounty, but that was just a damn good movie. There would be zero upside to this drama in the real world.