Lawrence O'Donnell, former Senate staffer, West Wing writer, and current big time political pundit, thinks he got a real scoop today, so huge he blared it across the front page of the Huffington Post website:

A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15.  He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant.  I kept saying, "So, Hillary will drop out by June 15," and he kept saying, "We will have a nominee by June 15."

To quote Cape Fear's Max Cady, let's just break that down. 

Barack Obama has just erased any potential Hillary Clinton has of surpassing him in the pledged delegate count, and the popular vote.  He has eliminated all remaining momentum she carried out of Pennsylvania.  He has survived the most bruising weeks any candidate—Democrat or Republican—has experienced this election cycle.  Forced to quell the most radioactive racial and religious issues a politician can be faced with, he emerged from this crisis by routing Clinton in North Carolina, and essentially tying her in Indiana.  The Clinton campaign is bankrupt, both financially and politically.  The party is already coalescing around its new standard bearer.  The media has declared this primary season essentially over.

And Lawrence O'Donnell's big scoop is that the Clintons expect a nominee to be affirmed by June 15—five weeks away?  Well, hell's yeah we better know our nominee by June 15—that's two weeks after the last frigging primary of the season, in Puerto Rico!  Yeah, um, I think, by then, the superdelegates, the voters, the non-voters, the mentally challenged, the unborn, and the undead, will all know who the nominee is.  According to the Clintons, they're just not sure which person that will be.  But golly gee, they want Lawrence to know: someone will be picked by then.

Great scoop, Larry!  We can all breathe a big sigh of relief!