Posted on 05/19/2005 10:58:36 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
After Howard Dean last weekend declared Tom DeLay ought to be in jail, a longtime Democratic operative told me the party's national chairman had momentarily ripped off his muzzle but that it soon would be restored. My source erred, however, in believing that Dean ever had been muzzled. It's just that nobody has paid much attention to his rants.
Since his election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Feb. 12, Dean has studiously avoided most national television exposure. But he has been talking to party gatherings across the country, and his intemperate language at these outings contradicts the notion that he has been kept under control. That he will leap onto the national stage Sunday on NBC's ''Meet the Press'' with Tim Russert raises concern among the Democratic political players whether he will contain himself.
Dean's election by the DNC membership was a case of the inmates seizing control of the asylum.
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He has described the Republican leadership, in various venues, as ''evil,'' ''corrupt'' and ''brain-dead.'' He has called Sen. Rick Santorum, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, a ''liar.''
What he said last weekend differed from this invective only in that it was presented to an urban forum and so became public knowledge. Addressing the Massachusetts Democratic convention in Lowell, Dean declared: ''I think DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence down there courtesy of the Texas taxpayers.'' Dean would jail DeLay without trial, without indictment and without accusation of any crime.
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First-quarter figures show the DNC received only $13 million from individuals, compared with $32 million raised by the Republican National Committee. Overall figures were $34.2 million by the RNC, $16.7 million by the DNC.
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Does this guy have access to weapons?
As DNC Chairman, Dean is McAuliffe without the fundraisng skills.
McAwful was a man who could turn a $100k investment into $18million.
No disrespect, but don't you mean "Eeeeaaarrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!. Keep on talking Howard."?!?
Why isn't this man the Treasury Secretary?
By chickening out of a scheduled debate with Eric Alterman at UCSB, Novak proved that right wing newspaper columnists have absolutely no integrity.
More importantly, why isn't he God?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's only a matter of time before Dean says something so awful and out of line that the MSM will be forced to cover it extensively, and it will hurt the dems badly.
He already has one - it's called a Samurai sword. Perhaps he will have to fall on it at some point.
O come on, MM! I figured that you of all people would cut Novak some slack for hating Israel almost as much as you do.
First-quarter figures show the DNC received only $13 million from individuals, compared with $32 million raised by the Republican National Committee. Overall figures were $34.2 million by the RNC, $16.7 million by the DNC.
That is what most level headed people predicted would happen, that funding would dry up.
Maybe, but he does have common sense.
The guy smelled an ambush a mile away.
I didn't think he'd be that smart or find out.
Because we don't want this guy doing to the US treasury what he did to the DNC.
What he did to the democratic party is criminal.
He raised funds, then looted, stole, and used his position to profit.
If he had been head of the RNC, the GOP would have thrown him in prison and tried to lynch him.
Even worse, if he talked about Bin Laden the way he talks about Delay and talked about Delay the way he talks about Bin Laden, most of the democratic party would think he's becoming soft and selling out.
Now tell me why anyone should trust the dems again, when american citizens are the enemy, and people who murder 3000 people are not.
"Dean has studiously avoided most national television exposure. But he has been talking to party gatherings across the country"
Major error in reporting this line of the story. The MEDIA has avoided covering Dean's speeches. They don't want to make him look bad so they don't want to let anyone have a look at Dean in action.
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