Nicely Done: The Messiah Allows Hillary To Wash Away Her Sins

By Kleinheider Posted on August 27, 2008 at 7:03 pm

A masterful political move. To break someone’s leg, then set the cast, and then be honored and applauded for having done so is quite a feat.

After a speech last night in which she made a case more against the current and future Republican regime than for Barack Obama, after releasing her delegates but not telling them how to vote, after subtly (but not explicitly) laying the groundwork for this roll call, Hillary gets to play the hero by bring it to a close.

Hillary has taken a big step today towards washing away the sins of her campaign and raising her profile within the Democratic Party as a “team player.” Forget the fact that both she and her surrogates maneuvered to ensure that her supporters would “require” this roll call. The only thing people will remember is that she put an end to it.

After all, the key to Hillary Clinton’s political future is not just that Barack Obama lose but that she not be blamed for the loss. If Barack Obama loses this election as an idealist progressive in a year tailor-made for Democratic victory, the Democratic Party will fall into disarray, chaos and fracture. People will be looking for scapegoat.

In order for Hillary Clinton to emerge from the chaos of an Obama defeat and lay claim to the Democratic nomination in 2012 she must ensure her hands are clean. She did that tonight and Obama let her.

Rest assured, if Obama loses this election, he will not be nominated again. Close but no cigar for a Democrat in this political climate is no cigar at all. There will be no rematch.

But as of this moment, it can be said that if the 2012 Democratic nominee is not Barack Obama seeking election to a second term, it will be Hillary Clinton, a nomination immaculately conceived on the floor of this Democratic convention.

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Lamar Alexander Isn’t Just The Man Who Makes The Deals

By Kleinheider Posted on May 23, 2008 at 9:10 am

He breaks them, too. Republican Senate Conference Committee Chair Lamar Alexander is a powerful man down in Washington and recently he has not been afraid to use that power to break bad with players on both sides of the aisle.

Not only did Alexander vote with Democrats and several Republicans to override a Presidential veto on the farm bill he also moved yesterday to block a deal struck by Democratic Leader Harry Reid and the administration to move several executive branch nominations forward.

Alexander stood in the way because of Reid’s refusal to approve William Graves for another term on the Tennessee Valley Authority Board:

Reid and the White House hatched a last-minute deal for the Senate to confirm Steve Preston as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, along with several nominees to the Institute of Peace, military officeholders, undersecretaries and ambassadors. The deal appeared to be headed for a unanimous consent agreement as the Senate prepared for the recess, but it fell apart after a Republican Senator objected to the deal.

Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) blocked the package of nominations from advancing because Reid continues to object to his pick for the Tennessee Valley Authority board. Alexander has pressed Reid to approve William Graves for another term on TVA, but the Majority Leader has said no, wanting Democratic representation on the board.

An Alexander spokesman said, “Senator Reid has been playing politics with nominees like Bishop Graves for far too long and that has got to stop. This is no small matter to Senator Alexander, and it’s astonishing that the Democratic Leader doesn’t recognize that fact after the conversations and letters exchanged by the two senators these past weeks and months.

“Reid has chosen an Institute of Peace nominee over the Secretary of Housing in the middle of a housing slump. That’s not the sort of leadership people expect from Congress,” the spokesman added.

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