DNC Chair Candidate: 99% Water

Josh Marshall doesn't get it.

And as long as we're on the subject, for all the supercilious nattering, this seems like a great list of candidates to run the DNC. Usually the whole choice isn't even seriously canvassed among more than a few insiders. And the big contenders tend to be lobbyists and moneymen.

Not that I'm necessarily against either, in their place, mind you. But here, as near as I can see, are a group of candidates, most of whom have a clear argument and set of ideas about rebuilding, reshaping and generally toughening up the Democratic party. And most of them at least don't seem to be in it -- at least in any immediate sense -- for the purposes of future rainmaking.

We could do far worse.

Wrong, Josh. The Democratic National Committee couldn't do "far worse" than Martin Frost and the "great list of candidates" cited at the link.

Apparently, this cannot be said enough: The Democratic Leadership Council has wrested the wheel of the party from the top down, placing all of its chips on RED while pursuing policies that are anathema to the fundamental beliefs held by the vast majority of the Democratic rank & file.

There is only one candidate equipped to head the DNC. Democrats who stand between Howard Dean and the party chairmanship do so at great harm to the national party.

Meet the new boss?

The Steny Hoyers in the Democratic Party still embrace the comfortable politics of yesteryear a la Martin Frost while the rest of us are left to freeze to death in an increasingly harsh climate of Fascism. Frost is not the man to teach democrats how to turn the organization into an effective opposition party. He's a an old-timer with an old modus operandi. Ever see The Simpsons episode with Kent Brockman and the ants?

"Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over- 'conquered' if you will- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Earthman or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."

I'm not sure who Brockman reminds me of more, Frost or Marshall.

There has never been a time of greater need for national leadership within the comatose Democratic Party. Should party insiders manage to evade the populist wave which Howard Dean represents, they will be tightening the noose around their own necks even as they choose short-term self-interest over the long-term overhaul grassroots Dems know is inevitable if Americans are to have an alternative to the One Party State.