politburo diktat 2.0

After the month of January, in which consultant spending sapped her campaign, Senator Hillary Clinton has proposed to change the rules of the Democratic nominating process to include her consultants as special delegates, who would be dubbed “super-duper delegates.”

She has spent $3.8 million on messaging guru Mark Penn. And Mandy Grunwald, Clinton’s ad-maker, pulled down $762,000 in January, while the firm of Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s top PR guy, was paid $267,000 last month. Now, according to Bill Clinton, “Don’t you think it is fair for us to get some return for this money, a lot which came out of our own pockets?”

The Clinton proposal would give each Clinton campaign consultant 1 delegate for every $1,000 spent on the consultant, giving Mark Penn 3,800 votes, Mandy Grunwald 762, and Howard Wolfson 267.

“After all,” said Mark Penn, “with all those irrelevant little states, and caucus states, and African-Americans, and Cheeseheads, and other unimportant people participating, shouldn’t some important people like us have a voice? Who speaks for the fabulously compensated, grotesquely overweight, political consultants, that’s what your average American wants to know.”