Train wreck

Roger Simon wrote on Politico.com Those people who believe all problems have solutions may be unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Democratic Party.

Or they just have not been paying attention the last couple of months.

On Saturday, the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will try to solve a big problem, in order to avoid a huge problem in order to prevent a train wreck.

A train wreck would be much more fun to watch.

The big problem is what to do about Michigan and Florida, two states stripped last year of their delegates to the Democratic National Convention because both broke party rules and moved their primaries up too early in the election year.

Actually the real problem is if you give in ane seat the delegates, how do you keep all the states in line in the future.

The rules committee will try to work out a compromise Saturday to try to seat those states in some form or fashion. It will be difficult, and the 30 members of the committee, who come from all over the nation, have been warned to keep their hotel rooms Saturday night, because the meeting may go into Sunday.

And Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, ....

The huge problem is what happens if one side or another does not like the rules committee’s compromise. In that case, the controversy would go to the 186-member Credentials Committee, which will convene in July or August. And if that happens, the party will be presented with a possible train wreck:

I want to see a train wreck.

Whatever the Credentials Committee decides will have to be voted on by the Convention in late August as its first order of business. And this could create what the media might love but the party dreads: a floor fight in Denver.

And this would make the convention fun to watch.