Grandma's House

Rumors are floating around that Harold Ickes will replace Terry McAuliffe as head of the DNC. This, of course, would be the expected thing if Hillary is going to be the next nominee.

Ickes was the architect of Hillary Clinton's successful 2000 Senate campaign, after running the Clinton White House's aggressive Chinagate fund-raising operation in 1996.

In 2002, after Sen. Clinton complained to Sen. Russ Feingold that campaign finance reform would make much of the party's fund-raising practices illegal, Ickes was assigned to carve out loopholes in the new law.

He came up with the concept of using 527 groups like the Media Fund, which Ickes headed, to raise tens of millions of dollars in soft money from liberal fat cats like George Soros and Peter Lewis.

Yeah, they're starting early, but they do have a lot of work to do.