let's not choose to not do anything about this one

It feels like a Friday the 13th sort of day...

Revisiting an earlier post:

As Clinton prepared to formally endorse his candidacy on Saturday, Obama said the Democratic National Committee would no longer accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees. He said he would keep Howard Dean as the national chairman, but was deploying his own advisers to oversee party operations.

Now we see this:

But the power will clearly be shifting to a centralized Chicago hub.

The DNC's key role in coordinating political operations with state parties is expected to largely be taken over and overseen by Obama's senior staff in Chicago, state party officials said.

So are we just going to give him the Democratic party?

This is too much power shifting away from us and into the hands of someone untrustworthy.

Did you like how everyone did nothing about W.?

Did you like how everyone did nothing about the leadup to Iraq?

Let's not just do nothing about this one.

BE LOUD. Make people take sides. Neutral = doing nothing = acceptance.

nominee status must come with more rights than I thought

What does this mean?

As Clinton prepared to formally endorse his candidacy on Saturday, Obama said the Democratic National Committee would no longer accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees. He said he would keep Howard Dean as the national chairman, but was deploying his own advisers to oversee party operations.

He is the party now?

This was just stuck into an article that appeared to be entirely about something else. This is presented as normal business-as-usual stuff, so maybe it's normal to deploy "your own advisers to oversee party operations". But it doesn't sound normal to me. I don't remember anyone else ever replacing party apparatus with one's "own people", the way one appoints a cabinet.