Very interesting convention.

Vote for Hillary if she was the eventual nominee. Now, she says that if the super delegates give it to Hillary over the voter's will, she will write Bernie in.

She is very much plugged in and it's a conversation they are having.

This is a "recursion." Recursion is the bane of logical systems.

We don't pay them to campaign for others. We pay them to be in their offices reading bills.

This is one of the reasons for the self-sustaining "establishment" up which so many of us are fed. (I mean to say "fed up," but that would be a dangling preposition.)

How many times have we heard, "I didn't read the bill, but voted for it anyway"?

For the first time in my life, I am on opposite sides with respect to Barbara Boxer, John Lewis, Al Franken, and others.

It is causing a lot of bad feeling -- from on high -- trickling down to us.

Theoretically, because I am the voter, they work for me. But, reality has a different yard stick.

There is a reason why I lurk here more than I post, even though I've been here since around 2003.

Let's just say I do not believe DU has adequately prepared for such a contingency. (Oh, I'm sure the site is prepared, but this site would become merely a DLC shell of its former self.)

I'm scared shitless of the depths that the Rahm Emmanuel types within the party are willing to pull to buy Hillary the election.