Finally

It appears that some members of the  Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) are beginning to realize that the consultants who have been running the party's political operations are not working for the party, they are working for themselves.

Well, knock me over with a  GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb.

After spending well over a billion dollars, and a significant chunk of that change ending up in consultants pockets, you are just now noticing?

Candidates vying to lead the Democratic National Committee have found a common enemy: the D.C. consultant.

In the first DNC-sanctioned forum in the body’s low-profile race for chair on Saturday, DNC candidates channeled their frustration at the “D.C. insiders,” whom New York state Sen. James Skoufis vowed to “kick to the curb.” Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin pledged the “D.C. consultants” will “be gone when I’m there.” And Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler promised he’d go into 2025 “with no commitments to anyone who’s been on a campaign payroll before.”

It’s a sign of the times for a party that burned through some $1.5 billion in the final months of the campaign, only to come up short against President-elect Donald Trump. As the party still searches for answers to its devastating losses in 2024, consultants became the punching bag while the DNC candidates largely avoided sparring with one another. They all agreed that the party needed to reground its identity with the working class and commit to a permanent campaign infrastructure across the country. But any light attacks — of which there were a few — came without names attached.

That $1.5 billion was spent in about 15 weeks, and as near as I can figure (unsurprisingly the numbers are incomplete and confusing) a least ⅕ of that went to various consulting firms.

This happens again, and again, and again, and nothing seems to be done about it.

One does hope that the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) will finally do something about fixing this problem.