Dem Leaders Tired Of BS, Say It Is Time To End The Primary Battle (Hillary, This Means You)

It looks like Party leaders are finally reaching the end of their patience with Hillary and this primary season. Today Speaker Pelosi warned Hillary's supporters (and essentially Hillary's campaign, although she wouldn't say it) who are threatening to divide the Party by taking the fight all the way to the Convention that they are pursuing "a scorched earth philosophy" (as if they didn't already know that) that would seriously damage the chances of electing a Democratic president in November, and she vowed to step in to prevent that from happening. She continued:

"There is too much at stake in our country for us to be thinking that we can afford the luxury of intra-party battles eight weeks before the election," said Pelosi, in her strongest words yet on the battle over seating delegates from Florida and Michigan. "We've had many months to have a debate, to come to a conclusion. And one way or another ... we have to come together."

She also hit back at Hillary about trying to break the rules for her political gain:

The American people have to know the Democratic Party can run its own delegate selection process ... if they want to govern America. The rules are what the rules are.

And she addressed the failure of the media:

"Instead of talking about process," Democrats now need to "talk about how we have a progressive economic agenda. ... That's what the American people want to hear about," she said. "That's how we can take America in a new direction."

And she also mapped out how she envisions this primary process ending:

"This is the democratic process ... we take it one step at a time. This weekend the (party's) rules committee will act," followed by the final three primaries - Puerto Rico on Sunday, Montana and South Dakota on Tuesday. Then, she predicted, "there will be some movement of the superdelegates after that ... and we'll make a judgment at that time on what is needed."

All indications are that this time will be soon, as Reid made clear on Wednesday:

There are only three places to go for superdelegates, the Senate the House and the DNC," Reid told the Writers Bloc at Town Hall Los Angeles on Wednesday. "I have talked to Governor [Howard] Dean. I talk to [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi. We are pretty much in tune. We are going to tell our folks there are only a couple days to make a decision for those who haven't made a decision."

"We are not going to choose a candidate at the convention. We are going to choose the candidate a week from today."

You can't get much clearer than that. He also took aim at Bush, calling him the worst president "we have ever had in the history of this country." And he went after Greenspan as well too, who he called a "fraud", the "J. Edgar Hoover of the financial world", and "the biggest political hack in Washington."

It sounds like the Party leadership is about tired of bullshit from every source.

And I like it.

Oh, and I shouldn't have to point this out, but I probably do: Pelosi isn't saying this because she hates women. Oh, and Ferraro, Pelosi isn't saying this because you are white either. Sometimes you are just wrong, grow up and deal with it, you are giving women everywhere a bad name.