the Clintonite hypocrisy runs deep

The Daily Kos has done a bit of digging into Terry McAuliffe's past. Apparently this whole scrap about Michigan breaking the DNC rules isn't a first, McAuliffe had to deal with it back in 2004 when he was the chair of the DNC.

From McAuliffe's book "What a Party":

"I'm going outside the primary window," [Michigan Sen. Carl Levin] told me definitively.

"If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses," I said. "We will have chaos. I let you make your case to the DNC, and we voted unanimously and you lost."

He kept insisting that they were going to move up Michigan on their own, even though if they did that, they would lose half their delegates. By that point Carl and I were leaning toward each other over a table in the middle of the room, shouting and dropping the occasional expletive.

"You won't deny us seats at the convention," he said.

"Carl, take it to the bank," I said. "They will not get a credential. The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, Carl, you go ahead and do it."

We glared at each other some more, but there was nothing much left to say. I was holding all the cards and Levin knew it.

[Source: McAuliffe, Terry. What A Party!, p. 325.]

That's Terry then... let's see what he thinks about this whole mess now that his candidate's potential nomination rests on seating delegates from a state who broke the rules set out at the beginning of the process:

Terry McAuliffe: I'm saying they've already voted, let's count the votes. I’m saying that the state parties in those states need to work with the national party and figure out how we count the votes that have already been voted.

Sometimes it's downright painful.