The “system” chosen and “maintained” by CheneyBush as the publicly acknowledged White House communications system appears well chosen for its inherent dysfunctionality, its archaic inability to do and track routine tasks.

I say “publicly acknowledged” because these guys are good. They run sophisticated, extraordinarily well-coordinated campaigns on a large number of issues over extended periods of time. Which means that somewhere there are highly effective communications systems. The publicly acknowledged White House system just isn’t one of them.

Among its other problems, the current system’s software and hardware are integrated into an unknown number of RNC and private contractor systems. Using it would violate the new President’s legal obligations from day one. An infraction concerning which McConnell or his successor would hold long and extended hearings. Moreover, every call would be the equivalent of putting Karl on a party line, every e-mail the equivalent of adding the RNC as a bcc.

Obama or Clinton should be planning now to implement a system they will use. Reid and Pelosi should make sure there’s unquestioned room in the budget for it, and should make bloody clear to their counterparts and the public why it’s needed. A system like that won’t be ready on day one. It will take time to implement. So the new President will need a transition system, one that doesn’t give up all its secrets to Onkle Karl. He’s the one, remember, who falsely claimed that the Clinton’s made life harder for Bush’s transition team by removing the “W’s” from the White House keyboards. Being an adopted Texan, I reckon, makes Karl think bigger.

Myanmar is mourning, and so is Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Sudan, and Palestine, etc.

Does being a wizard automatically qualify one to be a superdelegate? BT, we anxiously await your post!