While the conflagration over James Carville's insulting call for Howard Dean to be replaced has been diaried ad-nauseam, I was nonetheless delighted to see netroots hero John Conyers' succinct smackdown of the bald-headed bloviator in his newsletter this morning. Here's what he had to say:
We also need to recapture the White House in 2008 and maintain and expand our majorities in the Congress. In order to achieve these goals we need to be totally united as a Party. It is fine to debate and argue behind closed doors and among ourselves, but at the end of the day, we owe it to the American people to unite and lead.
More on the flip:
Thus, in my opinion it serve's no one's interests but the Republicans for anyone, including my friend James Carville, to suggest dumping DNC Chairman Dean less than three days after the most sweeping Democratic Congressional victory in more than thirty years.
Conyers rightfully accuses Carville of helping the Republicans. Although this issue has passed in the news cycles, let's hope other progressive Dems will show the same fortitude as Conyers and not stand silent when DLC hacks like Carville and Begala attempt to inject their poisonous disunity into the political atmosphere.
*UPDATE*
Carville does it again...now likens Howard Dean to the failures of Rumsfeld. Read FinneganOregon's great diary on this subject [http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/15/132640/08 here]
Carville evidently wants to start a war and it's a war he won't win. Contact your Democratic congressional representatives and ask that they publicly disown James Carville's inappropriate and divisive attempts to damage party unity.