I guess it’s really surprising but Hillary Clinton’s cronies continues not make even the slightest bit of sense. Harold Ickes and Howard Wolfson quoted in the Washington Post discussing the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee decision
“This motion will hijack — hijack — remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton,” said Harold Ickes, who oversees delegate operations for the Clinton campaign and is also a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee. “This body of 30 individuals has decided that they’re going to substitute their judgment for 600,000 voters.”
Arguing that the Michigan compromise “is not a good way to start down the path of party unity,” Ickes warned that Clinton had authorized him to note that she will “reserve her rights to take it to the credentials committee” later. Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson later affirmed that Clinton will reserve her right to challenge the outcome.
For starters I’m pretty sure 4 delegates isn’t going to be the difference between victory and defeat. The “600,000 voters” were voting in a election with only one name on the ballot, it’s absurd to pretend it was a legitimate election.
The most annoying part is definitely bring up the word “hijacking”. A process is hijacked when outside and illegitimate forces take over the process from the people that should rightfully be making the decision. There is no doubt in any thinking person’s mind that the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee has every right to make any decision they want to make. Even if they’re were wrong they’d still be the only body with the legitimacy to make the decision.
On the other hand hijacking is an appropriate description of a loser campaign threatening to ruin the convention by starting a credentials fight.
Hillary’s “rules” are to claim the nomination because she has gained more popular votes than Obama. Of course, the real rules state that Obama leads for the nomination because he has earned more delegates. I expect Hillary to take this argument to the Democrat National Convention in Denver and perhaps even appeal this up through the U.S. Supreme Court.