Democrats eat their own

This comes courtesy of Brilliant at Breakfast (I generally avoid The New Republic) and makes you wonder just how long it will take before the Democrats implode.

James Carville, that rowdy loudmouth that Jon Stewart destroyed a while back on CNN, is shooting off his mouth again. Here is Ryan Lizza’s report from The New Republic:

A PUTSCH AT THE DNC?:

Some big name Democrats want to oust DNC Chairman Howard Dean, arguing that his stubborn commitment to the 50-state strategy and his stinginess with funds for House races cost the Democrats several pickup opportunities.

The candidate being floated to replace Dean? Harold Ford.

Says James Carville, one of the anti-Deaniacs, “Suppose Harold Ford became chairman of the DNC? How much more money do you think we could raise? Just think of the difference it could make in one day. Now probably Harold Ford wants to stay in Tennessee. I just appointed myself his campaign manager.”

If I’m not mistaken, the Democrats managed to take back both houses of Congress, including seats in the South and others considered by party hacks to be untouchable — some of those 50 states the party’s supposedly mainstream leaders wanted to abandon.

And so it goes in the Democratic Party, a party that seems incapable of getting out of its own way. Doesn’t seem to bode as well for 2008 as some might think.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet