Sure, it's disgraceful…

…(and 'anti=Deaniac' is so, well, 2004), but this isn't really out of character…

Says James Carville, one of the anti-Deaniacs, "Suppose Harold Ford became chairman of the DNC? How much more money do you think we could raise? Just think of the difference it could make in one day. Now probably Harold Ford wants to stay in Tennessee. I just appointed myself his campaign manager."

After all, as Chris Bowers reminds us, the Ragin' Cajun is the guy who "... undermined John Kerry's potential challenge to the result in Ohio in 2004."

Digby's right…

Apparently the beltway elite is determined to start a war.

...and I'm on the same side of that war as he is, but why be coy. We can draw the circle tighter than "belway elite."

It's not secret that James Carville isn't an independent operator. What he does, what he says, is on behalf of a Clinton, every time. It's pretty clear to me that Hillary remembers how handy it was to have a friend in the DNC Chair. Just as Ron Brown greased the skids for Bill, Hillary's looking for a break in '08. Her grotesque spending in New York (how many more House and Senate seats might, what, $20 million have brought home) has been described as a financial potlatch, a ritual display of wealth designed to establish rank via capacity for srecklsess self-indulgence. Hell, she's still torpedoing that Kerry fella.

Yep, '08's begun in earnest, folks.