This evening (Saturday, May 31) at 7 pm Eastern time (6 pm Central, 4 pm Pacific) we will take to the airwaves on Mid Stream Radio to try to wrap our heads around the events in and outside of the Democrats’ RBC meeting in Washington, DC. We’ve written about it here quite a bit already, but join us for an internet radio meeting where you can join in the chat or call in to air your opinions. (Call 646-595-3963 or follow the link above and make sure you have a free user account to join in the always lively web chat.)
We’ll cover what’s gone on in the committee meeting thus far, and even more to the point, what the heck is going on outside!
Howard Dean may hope that the “healing will begin today,” but two blocks away from the northwest Washington Marriott where the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting right now to try to figure out Florida and Michigan, the Hillary protesters are occupying an utterly alternate (and healing-free) universe: a universe in which one of the big lawn rally’s speakers yells that the Democratic Party no longer is in the business of “promoting equality and fairness for all”; in which a Hillary supporter with two poodles shouts, “Howard Dean is a leftist freak!”; in which a man exhibits a sign that reads “At least slaves were counted as 3/5ths a Citizen” and shows Dean whipping handcuffed people; and in which Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who took to YouTube to allege that Barack Obama had oral sex with him in the back of a limousine in 1999, is one of the belles of the ball.
This is all truly amazing and sends the 2008 Democratic primary process spiraling into a whole new level of crazy. All of this is breaking just as CNN is announcing that Obama has resigned as a member of Trinity Church in Chicago. (Better late than never?) We’ll try to assemble a panel of Democrats, Republicans and Independents to sort it all out for you. See you there!