Howard picks up the broom and cleans house...
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What Dean can do to immediately help the party is to fire the losers, the multi-millionaire consultants who have been advising the candidates. In an unbelievably long streak of bad losses, those entrenched operatives have a stranglehold on Democratic politics. They are the mafia within the party. They control the purses, and, of course, they play favorites.
Dean's extraordinary success was due to his own devices not to traditional party support! A voice like his could not have risen from within the establishment of the DNC, and I say we need more voices like Howard's.....
Chairman Dean has an opportunity to clan house and he should do it fast. Business as usual is a losing proposition. The establishment, much of which opposed Dean during his presidential run and now for the chair of the DNC, will kick and scream, but for the first time the Democratic base, after a disheartening election loss, is still greatly energized. It's shouting, "throw the bums out!" It's this base, including the independent bloggers, and the thousands of grass-roots organizations that pushed for a change at the DNC. Maybe there is hope. Instead of being more like the GOP or playing a passive partner in the Congress, the Democratic Party can rise to the occasion. These are not ordinary times. The re-election of Dubya and his neo-con politics will be inflicting damage to America and the world for the many years to come, well after he leaves office....
Many Republicans are happy today because they think the Democratic party has a "death wish" (as Newt was quick to tell us) by electing Dean to its leadership. However, the party has to stick to its traditional values and achievements and not be another shade of the GOP. The Dems should be the party of change and of modernity, and it should start from within. Keeping the losers and the parasites is not the way to go. Howard, you have a mandate and an obligation to clean house!