So if Dean is being fired and the 50-state strategy is ending, what are folks so happy about?

[Leopolds Ghost]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4411663

Why should I care that one figurehead is in charge and not another? I am no fool.
I understand how the Washington power structure works.

[cali]

1. Dean is NOT being fired. He has said repeatedly over the past year that

he does not want to stay on particularly if the dems win the WH. DNC chair under a dem administration is a figurehead position and he has no interest in filling that role. He could not possibly have been clearer about it.

He wants HHS. Whether he gets it or not is another story.

[Phred42]

2. Dean was RIGHT - about EVERYTHING

The DLC has been WRONG about everything

[book_worm]

3. Who said he's being fired?

[cali]

4. just bullshit being spread by idiots.

[madfloridian]

6. Don't you think we have called each other idiots enough?

[cali]

8. I think spreading lies about Dean being fired is wrong.

[madfloridian]

9. In effect that is what is going on....just not in so many words.

He has never made it really clear, though he did express doubt about another term. He knows the rules. It is Obama's party now, and Rahm's.

I felt for a while like it was now my party again, but since he chose Rahm I feel like an outsider all over again.

[madfloridian]

5. They are laying off the state staffers. Insiders are taking their party back.

It leads to speculation.

Also we have become the party of Rahm, who wants power top down.

He is the exact opposite of Dean who wanted to allow bottom up power so we could be part.

He's out, the staffers are being laid off.

And DU is now Rahm country.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6201230&page=1

I think Dean's name is being kept off the media via party messaging.

It is the beginning of the insiders taking their country and party back.

[cali]

7. you know damn well that Dean wants to leave the DNC

and DU is hardly Rahm country. It is Obama country Sorry you don't like it. You are full of speculation with nothing real to back it up.

[madfloridian]

10. Yes, I am one of those you are calling an idiot.

yes, I know.

The truth hurts.

[cali]

11. that's just so weak, that nonsense about "truth hurts"

it's what people too often throw out when they don't have any truth at all.

[madfloridian]

12. It's because I'm an effing idiot. I lie all the damn time, cali.

I should know. I've been called one enough here lately.