May 28, 2008 (LPAC)--With a showdown looming Saturday in Washington over the disenfranchised Democratic Convention delegates of Florida and Michigan, the DNC's Rules Committee received "legal advice" today which is trivial compared to the principled issue involved, said Democratic economist Lyndon LaRouche. "Party lawyers" told the Rules Committee it could only seat 50% of the Florida and Michigan delegations, or only give those states half their apportioned votes at the Convention in Denver in August. But LaRouche's expert estimate is that "Whatever Dean and his stooges say, either the DNC must seat all of the delegates of Florida and Michigan as they were elected in the primaries, or the Democratic Party is looking for the greatest defeat in its history--or even its disintegration."

Organizers from WomenCount, Florida Demands Representation (FDR) and other groups demanding that the states' votes be counted and represented, have gathered hundreds of thousands of petitions, taken out newspaper ads, and say that thousands--perhaps tens of thousands--of Americans are heading for Washington to demonstrate outside the Rules Committee meeting May 31. Sen. Hillary Clinton has called "every vote is counted" a fundamental principle of American Constitutional and civil rights. But Sen. Barack Obama's worried campaign manager, David Plouffe, on May 28 called on demonstrators "not to gather and protest on Saturday: We don't need an unhelpful scene here at the end."

LaRouche's opinion is that Dean, who created this crisis by attempting complete disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan against the DNC's own rules, is playing with destroying the Democratic Party's future. "The lunatic from the Iowa caucus," LaRouche called Dean. He even noted that `Screamin' Dean is discrediting the famous name of `Dizzy' Dean, St. Louis Cardinals star pitcher of the 1930s. "`Dizzy' Dean was a much better leader, and he threw a much straighter pitch," LaRouche noted.