The article says "at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Democratic National Committee."

The DCCC is housed in the same building as the DNC headquarters. I fell in the same trap when I read that Tammy Duckworth was having a fundraiser at the DNC headquarters -- turned out it was a DCCC event.

Howard Dean has lousy neighbors!

I just got back from an event with Patrick Murphy, an Iraq Vet running in PA 08.

He connected with everyone on a level i've never seen. He is really progressive, and seems very sharp. He personally asked us to get everyone we know to donate a little money...even if its only 5,10, 0r 15 before tomorrow because that is the filing deadline. Please give at http://actblue.com/page/Eschaton

Every little bit helps-- they are very close to their goal!

What a silly mistake to make especially with good ol' Jack getting 6 years in Florida.  Restores my faith in Florida's legal system...if only something could be done about that Bush v Gore thing.

Anyway, I hope Ney goes down at the very least when all this is said and done--why are we not pounding home the reform platform.  That should be the top priority right now--establishing the party as the reform party for the midterm elections.  A generic ballot lead doesn't mean all that much this far out unless we can raise enough fuss about needing to clean house and independents love that message.

a corruption scheme involving an Internet company being set up in Nigeria.

That's enough for me.

Whether it was the DNC, DCCC or NWA, or what.

Up till now, so far as I'm aware, Jefferson's only connection with Dem head honchos was that the misguided citizens (that's Dem primary voters) of LA-2 have put the guy into the House - and his namesake is a Dem icon.

Now, the GOP Swift Boat merchants get what they wanted: a direct tie-in between Dem chiefs in DC and a Dem tainted with the prospect of a criminal conviction. (Of course, if they hadn't, they'd have made it up anyway. But one or two actual facts in a swift-boating can help.)

No longer is all the blame on those crazy Creole Staters: approval for the beanfeast must have come, I'm assuming, from the head man, most likely Dean or Rahmbo.

Great work, boys! GOP losing a house just went odds-against again...

If the fundraiser for Jefferson took place on March 8, and was reported on March 9, why are we only discussing it on March 30?

(I'd skimped on reading the piece right through, evidently. The date is what stands out, in the context of not hearing about it for three weeks.)

Does this have anything to do with a move (from whom?) to run a Dem against Jefferson? According to Green Papers, the only other guy currently running in the September 30 primary in LA-2 is GOP Joe Lavigne.

And what connection with the exodus of LA-2 black voters (or a lot of them) and the attempts to get out-of-state voting for Katrina refugees?

I am not certain why there exists this animosity toward one of the most thoughtful members of the Democratic caucus.  

First, to say that he often votes with Republicans is ludicrous, unless you are somehow factoring in votes on post offices and other non-controversial votes that draw overwhelming support from both sides every week.  I am very confident that his loyalty score is fairly high.  He does believe in free trade, but, hey, last I checked, so did Bill Clinton; that means that sometimes he votes for FTAs, but, guess what, the employees of the port of New Orleans and the significant number of New Orleans businesses that rely directly on trade for their existence and their jobs wouldn't have it any other way.

Second, it seems to me that many of you have fallen into some sort of "Syriana" mindset where folks are "innocent until investigated."  Do each of you believe that every allegation leveled against Bill Clinton and the multiple members of his Administration were in fact true because they were investigated?  Because that sure appears to be what follows from your logic with respect to the investigation of Congressman Jefferson.

I don't know about the rest of you, but until there is a conviction, then I think I'll stick with the "innocent until proven guilty" mode of thinking that has made America great.

Anyone who reads the paper knows that even an indictment is no indicia of guilt.  It may smell bad to some, but it's not even close to a conviction.  An investigation--as should be evident from the experience of the Clinton Administration--is even further removed from such a conclusion.

Until the evidence is adduced to prove otherwise, which none has emerged to date, Congressman Jefferson remains a great legislator, a true progressive, and an innocent man.  The 80% of the vote he consistently receives should be sufficient evidence of the first two points; the Constitution guarantees the final point.

Why must so many Democrats leap immediately to eating their own (as if we need to help the Republicans in any way)?