[FormerACLUmember]

This is extremely depressing news. Dean seems to be on the verge of being fired, which would be a great tragedy for the Republican Party.

[ChadGore]

[spetznaz]

The Democrat party is its own worst enemy. They are utterly destroying themselves. Not only have they adopted issues that simply do not resonate with the greater populace, they have decided to move even further to the Left. And not only that but they continuously mock the religious (particularly Christians ....actually only Christians), jest at the people who live in Red States, and pander towards issues that are basically akin to quasi-socialism/communism in the belief that doing so makes them the 'party of the people.'

LOL. And they think that such actions are going to win over the average voter!

Let me put it this way ....they will be ranting and raving over 'stolen elections' for the next 2 decades because they WILL continue losing elections. And not because they are 'stolen' but because they are so darn STUPID that they push away the very voters they need to win anything. And if they continue down the same route they will become extinct as a viable party in 3 decades. And aactually I'd say they are already obsolete! After all what else do they do apart from saying 'no' to anything and everything that we bring forward. I cannot think of one positive idea they have come with, they only have a lot of negative statements without offering viable alternatives.

And if they best they can do is a limp-wristed-wimp like Kerry, a foot-in-mouth loony like Dean, a skeleton-in-the-closet-rife Hillary et al then it just shows that they are truly in dire straits. In the next few decades they may very well join the Whigs in the annals of history.

[lowbridge]

Edwards said Dean ''is not the spokesman for the party."

The spokesman for the party is not the spokesman for the party?

[Soul Seeker]

Yes, he DOES speak for the Party (and members therein) as their Chairman. Yes, a Bolton confirmation is a win Biden. And YES it was a filibuster when the Dems prevented a vote on Bolton.

Random points but the Dems seem to believe saying something makes it true.

IF they didn't want Dean as Chairman representing them they would seek his removal. They have not. The only reason they are speaking now is because Dean crossed a line by dragging low income & average income families into this fight by suggesting they've never known an honest days work. The Dems know he stepped in it with that comment, so this is CYA time. If they were truly offended it would be more than a few critical words. They'd have his head.

[Steely Tom]

I'm gonna miss ya, Howie.

(steely)

[FreedomSurge]

Dean does speak for all Democrats, he is their party chairman.

[Plutarch]

Well, if DNC Chairman Dean isn’t spokesman for the Democrat Party, who is he the spokesman for?

[deport]

Dean doesn't speak for whole party, some Democrats say - (losing traction even with his own party!)

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Nothing unusual about that in either party I'd guess... Seems some would say the same about leaders within the Republican party.

[Cincinna]

IMO they are playing "good cop"/ "bad cop", and the Hillary wing will come in at the last moment to save the party from the "extremists"

[R.W.Ratikal]

Biden is mistaken. Howard "Dr. Demento" Dean does speak for him and all other Democrats. Dean is the head of the party and is the party spokesman.

His attitude and words exactly state the feelings of the Socialist leadership of the Dem party. Dean might be viewed as nasty and mean but what you see is what you get.

Old political hands like Biden might see a danger in Dean as his representative, but there is little he can do about it. After all the party put Dean in as Chairman of the Dem National Committee. They could have perhaps done better -- maybe Sharpton.

[Bar-Face]

" Edwards said Dean ''is not the spokesman for the party"

In the immortal words of Col. Potter," HORSEHOCKY".
Dean does speak for the Democrat Party. At least the Move-on.org, the Michael Moore & Du wing of the party and that is is the wing that controls the party in 2005.

[Richard Axtell]

Dean is doing exactly what I expected him to do, say things and act in accord with his mental illness. The man is megalomaniacal delusional, who will ultimately cross everyone in the Democrat Party. His days as head of the DNC are numbered, just what is that number? Hillary's headaches abound!

[tuffydoodle]

"Dean has said Republicans never made an honest living in their lives and House majority leader Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. DeLay has not been accused of any crime."

My husband told me that Dean made this statement and I didn't believe him. I told him no one is that stupid. Was I ever wrong.