Comments on: Hold the Phone on That Michigan Caucus http://washingtonindependent.com/2052/hold-the-phone-on-that-michigan-caucus National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jrbehrman http://washingtonindependent.com/2052/hold-the-phone-on-that-michigan-caucus/comment-page-1#comment-5225 jrbehrman Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:20:36 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2052#comment-5225 The DNC should determine if one or both candidates violated their "no campaign" pledge and bar any vote for one or both on the first ballot, but otherwise give the MI delegates their proper representation in the national convention.<br><br><br><br>The conventions are the highest authority in the party and the only institution in the Democratic party (patronage-chain) that is even vestigially egalitarian or majoritarian. It has a party governance role that, of course, the party elite (aristocracy, what the <i>ancien regime</i> called the clerical estate) fear to share with the party <i>bourgeois</i> (pay-their-own-way envelope-stuffers).<br><br><br><br>Aux armes citoyens, formez les battalions! The DNC should determine if one or both candidates violated their "no campaign" pledge and bar any vote for one or both on the first ballot, but otherwise give the MI delegates their proper representation in the national convention.

The conventions are the highest authority in the party and the only institution in the Democratic party (patronage-chain) that is even vestigially egalitarian or majoritarian. It has a party governance role that, of course, the party elite (aristocracy, what the ancien regime called the clerical estate) fear to share with the party bourgeois (pay-their-own-way envelope-stuffers).

Aux armes citoyens, formez les battalions!

]]> By: wendell http://washingtonindependent.com/2052/hold-the-phone-on-that-michigan-caucus/comment-page-1#comment-5224 wendell Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:00:53 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2052#comment-5224 Has anybody seriously considered the Republican solution: that they lose half? Has anybody seriously considered the Republican solution: that they lose half?

]]> By: jrbehrman http://washingtonindependent.com/2052/hold-the-phone-on-that-michigan-caucus/comment-page-1#comment-1848 jrbehrman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2052#comment-1848 The DNC should determine if one or both candidates violated their "no campaign" pledge and bar any vote for one or both on the first ballot, but otherwise give the MI delegates their proper representation in the national convention. The conventions are the highest authority in the party and the only institution in the Democratic party (patronage-chain) that is even vestigially egalitarian or majoritarian. It has a party governance role that, of course, the party elite (aristocracy, what the <i>ancien regime</i> called the clerical estate) fear to share with the party <i>bourgeois</i> (pay-their-own-way envelope-stuffers). Aux armes citoyens, formez les battalions! The DNC should determine if one or both candidates violated their "no campaign" pledge and bar any vote for one or both on the first ballot, but otherwise give the MI delegates their proper representation in the national convention.

The conventions are the highest authority in the party and the only institution in the Democratic party (patronage-chain) that is even vestigially egalitarian or majoritarian. It has a party governance role that, of course, the party elite (aristocracy, what the <i>ancien regime</i> called the clerical estate) fear to share with the party <i>bourgeois</i> (pay-their-own-way envelope-stuffers).

Aux armes citoyens, formez les battalions!

]]> By: wendell http://washingtonindependent.com/2052/hold-the-phone-on-that-michigan-caucus/comment-page-1#comment-1849 wendell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2052#comment-1849 Has anybody seriously considered the Republican solution: that they lose half? Has anybody seriously considered the Republican solution: that they lose half?

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