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Uh, boss? We really doing this?

I got a chuckle out of this:

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley... accused party insiders of trying to tilt the primary contest in Hillary Clinton's favor.

O'Malley lit into the Democratic Party for seeking to limit the number of presidential debates, which he said would help Clinton glide to the nomination...

"There's an effort by a few insiders to try to limit the number of debates that we have and I've shared with the chair -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- that I think that's a grave mistake and I think it's undemocratic," O'Malley told The Hill in between in-between campaign stops in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.

"It's all about trying to pre-ordain the outcome, circle the wagons and close off debate," O'Malley said. "If they could actually accelerate the date of the Iowa caucuses and hold them tomorrow -- they'd like to do that. Then there'd be no campaign at all. That's what they'd really like."

Asked if the party insiders included the Clintons, O'Malley said: "Of course they are. President and Secretary Clinton are the most colossal, prolific fundraising couple in the history of representative democracies."

An aide then reminded O'Malley that he was on the record.

"I know," O'Malley answered, before continuing. "So yes -- lots of people have long histories with the Clintons."

O'Malley said he told Wasserman Schultz of his concerns.

"I told her that I didn't feel that the party was listening to our concerns and I told her that limiting the number of debates before the first contest would be a grave mistake," he said. "The people have a right to hear what the candidates stand for. We need to have a debate."

I also thought the DNC's response was creepily Stepford Wife-ish:

DNC spokeswoman Holly Shulman said in a statement that DNC officials are "thrilled to hear that Governor O'Malley is eager to participate in our debates."

By fnord12 | August 6, 2015, 7:43 AM | Liberal Outrage