Dean Hammers Bush On War, Immigration: DNC Chief Gives Preview of '06 Race (Mega barf alert)

washington post ^ | Sunday, December 4, 2005 | Dan Balz

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PHOENIX, Dec. 3 -- Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean offered a preview of the 2006 elections here Saturday with a blistering critique of President Bush's policies on Iraq and immigration and the Republicans' ethics scandals. But he warned Democrats they cannot expect to win next year without offering an agenda of their own.

Speaking at the fall meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Dean pledged that Democrats would offer tax policies aimed at middle-class voters, a plan to provide health insurance to all Americans, immigration proposals that offer a path to legalization for illegal immigrants, and defense policies that would protect the nation and expose the "hollow promises" of the Bush administration.

Dean warmly praised Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) for "standing up and telling the truth" about Bush's policies in Iraq, and suggested that the Pennsylvanian had offered a vision around which Democrats could rally.

[Republican Wildcat]

YEEEAAAAHHH!

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

It's never a Mega Barf, more like a Mega Laugh, when Dean speaks. Does anybody in America actually take this guy seriously? When he smiles, he looks like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the Batman movie.

[Once-Ler]

But he warned Democrats they cannot expect to win next year without offering an agenda of their own.

Pretty pathetic when the head of the DNC can't tell you the rat agenda. I guess he can't make "BOHICA America," sound appealing to voters.

[Pelham]

a balanced immigration policy would provide a way to give many of the 11 million illegal immigrants a path to legal status"

Looks like the OBLs have a new ally in Howard Dean.