Reply #116: What about a compromise?

[DFW]

Have Cindy run against Mean Jean Schmidt? I thought Cindy was
originally from Ohio, so she would be running for a seat in her
own state. After the strong challenge to Mean Jean last time,
she might even eventually win in an upset, and then if she wants
to be a thorn in Pelosi's side, she can do it every day for two years
straight.

The blackmail argument does, unfortunately, hold some water: do what
I want or else. That may not be what Cindy wanted to say, but that's
what it sounds like, and despite Pelosi's deference to Bush's office,
she despises his politics. Just read any of her stuff. So she didn't
want impeachment on the table. She thought it would distract from her
agenda. That may or may not have been a miscalculation, but I'm not
yet ready to throw in the towel. Just because an ally doesn't go about
things the way I want doesn't make him or her an enemy. If we had
acted like this with DeGaulle and Churchill in World War II, Hitler
would have won.

The swipe at Howard Dean above was a cheap shot. Listen to ANY of his
speeches. Like Wes Clark, Howard has never minced words. As party chairman,
he has to walk a tightrope as it is, and he doesn't make it easy on
Democrats running tight races in red areas when he speaks out on the
Sunday talk shows when he speaks up, but speak up he does.