I have come to the conclusion that when it comes to presidential politics, Hillary Clinton is like a party guest who has overstayed her welcome and needs to go home.
   This Saturday, the Democratic National Credentials Committee will decide what to do with the delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states which moved their primaries and were punished as a result.     
    Already the democrats’ legal team says the most that could happen is that half the delegates from both states get seated. 
    Hillary says all the votes should count. But that’s like saying someone who robbed a bank should get to keep some of the money.
    The states of Michigan and Florida broke the rules and cut in line in front of a lot of other states, and they should have to live with those consequences.
   I also think it’s funny that Clinton keeps saying she leads in popular vote if you count the two states.  She conviently leaves out the fact that Obama did not campaign in Florida and wasn’t on the ballot in Michigan. 
  And she also leaves out votes in caucus states like Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington.

  For Cinton to say she’s the front runner is like my son telling me he was valedictorian in summer school. I told him to go somewhere and sit his rear end down.
  Maybe the democrats will tell that to Hillary.

This may be the strangest story I’ve read all week:

U.S. Rep. Baron Hill’s comments to a Memorial Day ceremony in southern Indiana’s Dubois County have upset members of a veterans group who feel they were too political.

Hill, a Democrat, told the Dubois County Veterans Council’s Memorial Day ceremony that President Bush planned to veto a GI Bill approved by Congress. He encouraged the crowd to ask the president to let the bill become law.

“I don’t want to make this political, but the president has said that he is going to veto this bill. For the life of me I don’t understand why,” Hill said in his speech. “And I hope that you’ll take the time, in honor of our veterans, to write to the president of the United States and ask him to change his mind.”

A member of Congress walks into a Memorial Day ceremony where the crowd is largely, if not wholly, comprised of veterans. He makes a comment about how he wishes people would contact the President and ask him not to veto a very bipartisan bill that would provide incredible education benefits to our returning troops. And the veterans are mad?

Color me confused.

According to a press release from his office, Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel has taken himself out of the running to be Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jill Long Thompson’s running mate. From the release:

Mayor Weinzapfel is flattered to be thought of in such high regard, but he does not want to be considered for Lieutenant Governor.

“We have some great projects underway and big challenges yet to tackle such as the future of Roberts Stadium, our storm water projects and the budget,” said Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel. “Right now, it is more important for me to concentrate on my commitments here in Evansville rather than run for Lieutenant Governor.”

There’s no question that Weinzapfel, who hammered home his rising star reputation by winning 85 percent of the vote in his mayoral re-election bid last year, would have been a terrific addition to the ticket, but there are plenty of big names still floating out there, including former Indiana House Speaker John Gregg and several current Southern Indiana lawmakers.

Thompson, who also has hinted that she might recruit someone from outside the political realm, must select a running mate before the Indiana Democratic Party holds its state convention on June 20-21.

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has inspired me.

As some of you may know, I served for more than two years as the Communications Director for the Indiana Democratic Party, and McClellan’s new tell-all book got me thinking I should tell all of the party’s innermost secrets right here on the Capitol WatchBlog.

No, wait. Hang on a second.

I’d never do that.

Know why?

Because it’s disloyal and stupid to kiss and tell. Also, it usually doesn’t work out well in the long run.

See, McClellan may rake in a pretty penny from his book deal. He’ll get to tour the country and speak to a few big audiences and become a temporary poster child for the “I told you Dubya was an idiot” crowd. (Incidentally, I don’t need to read his book to draw that conclusion.)

And then, suddenly, it will all be over. Fifteen minutes gone by. No more glitz and intrigue. Just Scott McClellan with a chunk of change and a lot of enemies.

Now, I’m not going to tell you that political hacks who stay loyal and don’t air their dirty laundry at Borders have no enemies.

If you work in politics, you have enemies.

Scratch that.

If you are a living adult who regularly interacts with other people, you have enemies.

But there’s a huge difference between pissing someone off at, say, a slating convention and essentially calling your former boss, who also happens to be the President of the United States, an unwittingly deceptive fella who doesn’t really think for himself.

That’s just not going to go over well.

I especially identify with McClellan’s situation because when you work in communications, you often times know a lot more than other people in the office about really sensitive things. It’s your job to know these things because someone might ask you about them, and you don’t want to be the flack who stares blankly back at a reporter and says, “Um, what?”

But having access to information means you have to be even more trustworthy.

What McClellan did is inexcusable. I don’t like George W. Bush. I don’t think he’s a good President. That’s why I’d never work for him.

If McClellan felt the same way, he should have quit. Instead, he’s going to spend the next few news cycles in the limelight and the rest of his life in political purgatory. And that’s precisely what he deserves.