Mad Dr. Dean Strikes Again

From the Boston Globe:

Dean rips DeLay at convention
May 15, 2005

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Party, said yesterday that the US House majority leader, Tom DeLay, "ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence," referring to allegations of unethical conduct against the Republican leader.

Dean's remark, in a speech to Massachusetts Democrats at their party convention, drew an immediate rebuke from US Representative Barney Frank, the Newton Democrat and one of DeLay's harshest critics. "That's just wrong," Frank said in an interview on the convention floor. "I think Howard Dean was out of line talking about DeLay. The man has not been indicted. I don't like him, I disagree with some of what he does, but I don't think you, in a political speech, talk about a man as a criminal or his jail sentence."

When Barney Frank criticizes a fellow Dem, you know the transgression had to be extreme.

Does Dr. Dean think his comments are made in a vacuum? No doubt, the Democrats he was addressing loved his suggestion that Sen. DeLay go to jail in Houston. What about the all of the self-proclaimed Dems that voted for Bush? What about Independents? Does the Democrat party really think this sort of inflammatory rhetoric from its chairman is helping them in all those Red counties?

With the good Dr. Dean at the helm of the DNC, each day is like Christmas for the Republicans.