It's decision day for Democrats (Live Thread -delegates to be apportioned)

cnn ^ | 05/31/08 | cnn

[TornadoAlley3]

All-night meeting fails to come up with resolution Rules committee searching for plan to count Michigan, Florida delegates Both states' delegations invalidated for violating party rules Members of the Democratic National Committee's rules and bylaws panel convened for more than five hours behind closed doors Friday evening. The meeting ended at 1:30 a.m. ET Saturday -- eight hours before the committee is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the matter.

[eyedigress]

Reconvening at 4:15 EST for debate and maybe vote. NO SMOKING in the facility.

[TornadoAlley3]

They tried to amend the bill to exclude that. It failed, the bill also including some reforms to hand count every vote and some other new rules I don't know.

[Miss Didi]

Just posted (are they writing tomorrow's news?):

Sources: Florida Delegate Compromise Reached at DNC Meeting Foxnews | June 1, 2008

Democratic leaders have reached a compromise to seat the disputed Florida delegation at the August convention, with each delegate receiving a half-vote, two Democratic sources told FOX News Saturday.

[mewzilla]

Clearly not the Democrats, since they’ve been running the State for years.

Another 'Rat run Utopia...

SNORT.

[RatsDawg]

According to them, its Bush’s fault, that Michigan is horrible.

[TornadoAlley3]

could be, Michigan will be the fight that never ends.

[eyedigress]

Of Course. Unions are great and protect you, until they leave.

[MHGinTN]

Michigan! ... Another crumbling stone in Ratopia’s foundation. Sadly, ‘democraq’ voters aren’t capable of seeing the facts.

[TornadoAlley3]

Hillary Clinton’s brother is one unhappy camper
While Democratic honchos sought today to untangle the problems caused by the rogue Florida and Michigan primaries, the party was in danger of losing a high-profile vote — that of Hugh Rodham, the brother of Hillary Clinton.

The Times’ Faye Fiore found Rodham sitting in an Irish-themed bar across the street from the Washington hotel where the Democratic rules committee was grappling with the mess. He was drinking a pint ... and fuming.

“I’m just here to make sure Americans are represented by one vote for every person,” he said, parroting the Clinton line that the results in the two states should be reflected in their totality at the Democratic convention.

With the Democratic National Committee likely to settle on, at some unknown point, a different solution that results in fewer delegates for Clinton, Rodham opined: “What the DNC and (Chairman) Howard Dean are doing is an absolute disgrace.”

The upshot?

Rodham, a self-described “yellow dog Democrat all my life,” is unsure who he would support in November if Clinton is not the party’s standard bearer.

“If my sister doesn’t end up with the nomination, I gotta take a look at who I’m gonna vote for,” he said.

Horrors.

Does that mean, Fiore asked, Rodham would vote for Republican John McCain?

“I didn’t say that. It could be Bob Barr,” he said, referring to the Libertarian presidential candidate who, as a House member from Georgia, was a prime player in the impeachment of Rodham’s brother-in-law, Bill Clinton).

With that, Rodham paid his check and gathered his family: his son (the grandson of California Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose daughter, Nicole, was once married to Rodham), his baby by his second marriage, asleep in a stroller, and his pregnant wife. They headed back ...

toward the committee meeting.

“I’m going to go yell at the DNC meeting or wherever they’ll let me in,” he said.

Rodham, whose questionable business practices caused his sister headaches in the past, already had reason for disenchantment with Florida. He was the Democratic Senate nominee there in 1994 (a bad year in general for his party) and got crushed by the GOP incumbent, Connie Mack III, 71% to 29%.

— Don Frederick
latimesblogs

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I'm astounded that they did the Pledge of Allegiance.

The stinking Rats are clever enough to realize that they are on national television. Bet they had to go out and buy 10,000 flag pins to hand out, because you can bet that there weren't three between them.

[mewzilla]

MI, NY, MA, CA, all states undergoing a bug-out.

Gee, wonder why...

[maggief]

This pic sums it up well ...

[mewzilla]

Might as well add PA, too.

From this link...

Pennsylvania

Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006: 1.3%

[txrangerette]

Democrats...been running ruining the state for years

Even better...

[mewzilla]

Talk about a pic being worth a thousand words...

[luvie]

That lively “group” might just hold the clue for the next few months for the DUmmies! LOL!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Still playing Florida 2000.

"From hell’s heart I stab at thee -- for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee!"

[eyedigress]

FLA in droves...

[TexasNative2000]

What a contrast. In less than 65 years, we've gone from Roosevelt and Churchill determining international strategy in Europe to Roosevelt and Herman determining DNC strategy in New York.

[MHGinTN]

Oops, just enough time to get the air popper going before the chaos show resumes! ... And to think the dems actually believe this is good for their image. Bwahahahaha before the lights go out in Denver, the Rodham rodent will be the demorat nominee ... Barry just doesn't realize it yet. Oh, the powers that be will give him the nomination, but then it will be shifted to the Rodham rodent for the November election when he is exposed as unelectable.