Matt Littman: Now, Team Hillary Goes After Speaker Pelosi

[marmar]

from HuffPost:




Matt Littman
Now, Team Hillary Goes After Speaker Pelosi
Posted March 27, 2008 | 10:51 AM (EST)


They went after Barack Obama, and he proved more popular and more resilient than Team Hillary. They went after Howard Dean, and he didn't cave. They went after Bill Richardson, and he didn't give in. Now, they have come for our Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

Hillary Clinton's big donors see their dreams of a Senate confirmation hearing and a post as Ambassador to the Bahamas dying before their very eyes, and so they are making threats. Senator Clinton's fundraisers, indignant that after all of these years of effort on behalf of Bill and Hillary they may not become overnight guests in the Lincoln Bedroom, and irate that all their money may not buy them a plum foreign assignment in the next administration, told Howard Dean that he had better find a way to get Florida and Michigan seated at the Democratic Convention -- or else they'd pull their money from the Democratic National Committee.

But their ploy didn't work.

Then, James Carville famously branded Bill Richardson a "Judas" for letting his conscience come before his jobs.

Bill Richardson laughed. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-littman/now-team-hillary-goes-af_b_93645.html

[leftofcool]

1. Money talks and the DNC is already broke, not to mention in a lawsuit

[babylonsister]

2. Hold on. The DNC is broke? Got a link? And you're advocating

blackmail by the Clinton camp?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5273516

[JackORoses]

4. Obama has 2 million donors and counting

The Democratic Party will be just fine without Hillary and her fat cats.

They will no longer be buying their way into power, that door has been slammed in their faces.

[madfloridian]

7. That is not true. Do some research. DNC raised more this month

than the other Democratic committees. They have been doing this consistently. The other Dem committees sit on it for the general, the DNC has been building state parties.

There was a long post at Kos about this a couple of days ago.

The DNC under Dean has raised more than McAuliffe did with the only exception being the pres. election year in 2004. Outraised others as well.....just spending it on rebuilding the party outside of DC

[4themind]

3. Older article about cooper-hillary relationship

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/opinion/05brooks.html>
EDIT: It's written by david brooks, so if you planned to dismiss it after you read the author of the article, you won't even have to click on the link now

[Me.]

5. Who Made The Letter Public?

That's one way of exposing those who think they should be deciding our elections for us.

[Window]

6. Way to go Team Hillary.

:thumbsdown: