Jill Biden's Howard Dean Moment

This is the meme that will end this presidency.

Jill Biden is Howard Dean 2.0 pic.twitter.com/FAACtZBC8M

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 28, 2024

This is exactly how I reacted to Jill Biden's post-debate comments. She acted like Howard Dean, desperate and unhinged.

However, Howard Dean was the candidate suffering a defeat. It was understandable for him to flip out, albeit creepy. Jill Biden is the spouse of the defeated, humiliated, dementia-riddled candidate. Her insistence on keeping up the hoax of her husband's presidency is really unsettling. She's nuts. She's delusional. She's a liar.

Both Joe and Jill have lost their minds.

Democrats Claim Trump Paid No Taxes - WRONG

Trump Paid $38 Million In Taxes In One Year Alone. Here Are 9 Times Democrats Claimed Trump Paid No Taxes. https://t.co/GaoUSnhEky pic.twitter.com/CoDeYUHies

— Aaron Bandler (@bandlersbanter) March 15, 2017

Howard Dean: Trump, Kent State, Edmund Pettus Bridge

Howard Dean's comments about the election of Donald Trump are irresponsible.

They diminish what happened at Kent State and Selma.

Dean shows a disturbing lack of knowledge and perception when it comes to facts.

His rhetoric, like from so many on the Left, is out of control.

Howard Dean recalling his advice to students after Trump won: "This is your Edmund Pettus Bridge. This is your Kent State." pic.twitter.com/UnVWjNakjJ

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 24, 2017

Dean has been out of control as long as I've been aware of Dean.


This sort of garbage from Dean is expected but that makes it no less crazy.

Politico Editor Michael Hirsh Resigns

The Leftists are really losing it.

Michael Hirsh, national editor at Politico, went nuts on Tuesday and posted the home addresses of Richard Spencer on Facebook, encouraging violence against him.

From the Daily Caller:

National editor at Politico Michael Hirsh resigned after publishing the home addresses of alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer Tuesday morning and advocating for serious violence.

Politico confirmed his resignation following requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Stop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as decent Americans,” Hirsh wrote in a public Facebook post. “Here are his two addresses.”

“These posts were clearly outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, and POLITICO editors regard them as a serious lapse of newsroom standards,” Politico Editor-In-Chief John Harris and Editor Carrie Budoff Brown told TheDCNF. “They crossed a line in ways that the publication will not defend, and editors are taking steps to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again.”

While Hirsh’s initial post could have been charitably interpreted to imply advocacy of a non-violent protest outside of Spencer’s home or other similar non-violent actions, a subsequent question and answer clarified Hirsh’s intentions.

“Completely agree we should mobilize against his hateful ideas, but what does knowing his home addresses do?” one Facebook user asked Hirsh. “Send a letter? Confront him in person? Seems like counter-speech is the main thing we can do. You can call it ‘whining’ but I’m not sure that’s fair or constructive. Side note: Apparently the GSA-owned Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in DC felt obligated to host his organization’s event because it can’t discriminate against speech under the First Amendment, so there’s that problem, too.”

Hirsh responded in an unhinged manner: “I wasn’t thinking of a fucking letter, Doug. He lives part of the time next door to me in Arlington. Our grandfathers brought baseball bats to Bund meetings. Want to join me?”

Oh, my God!

Publishing home addresses?

Suggesting being armed with baseball bats?

This is completely unhinged behavior from a journalist.

Of course, the backward views of Richard Spencer and white nationalists/supremacists should be condemned.

All lives should be valued and respected, regardless of one's race, religion, ethnicity, or age.

Bad things happen, as Hirsh learned, when one behaves badly.

Speaking of behaving badly, Howard Dean decided to call Steve Bannon anti-Semitic and actually referred to him as a Nazi.

A Nazi?

Aaron Klein disagrees, calling Bannon a "fighter against anti-Semitism."

I wonder why Leftists, particularly in the media, didn't and don't object to the anti-Semitism in the Obama administration, yet they are going off the deep end because some white supremacists, like Richard Spencer, have decided to rear their very ugly heads.

It seems like everyone is going crazy. The rhetoric is out of control.

Crying wolf is a dangerous thing.

Howard Dean: Trump Sniffle, Coke?

#DonaldTrump's sniffles prompt Howard Dean to tweet 'Coke user?' https://t.co/07casMudPm pic.twitter.com/hdgqvUws1g

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 27, 2016

Ridiculous, of course.

It's a stupid thing for Dean to say.

However, since Dean wants to go down that path, should we talk about Obama and his drug use?

While preparing for his 2008 presidential run, Obama lied when he presented himself as simply "trying" pot in high school.

In his book, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama writes about partaking in more than pot.

This is interesting.

Bernard Schoenburg writes:

Obama, 42, told me recently he had tried marijuana in high school and hasn't consumed any illegal drugs in 20 years. When I asked if there was anything beyond marijuana in his past, Obama said, "That'll suffice."

But the book includes a passage in which Obama discusses how he dealt with questions from his mother when he was 17 and a senior in high school. The context of the book also makes clear that he was trying to deal with the problems his race presented.

"I had learned not to care," he wrote. "I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..."

Obama last week apologized for not telling me earlier about his past as portrayed in the book. He said I had caught him off guard with the drug question and that, at the time, he had not wanted to overshadow his story of that day - his endorsement by the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

Besides pot, Obama would use coke when he could but stayed away from heroin. This is on the record stuff from the man himself.

But Trump sniffles and Dean plants the seed that it's due to coke?

Dean owes Trump an apology.

No apology is coming.

JUST IN @GovHowardDean stands by cocaine tweet & says Trump needs to answer charge, no apology @MSNBChttps://t.co/V7HfQtfXTy

— Kate Snow (@tvkatesnow) September 27, 2016

It wasn't a joke!

Dean is serious.

Insane!

Obama and Vaccinations

Ken Shepherd, NewsBusters, points out that while Chris Matthews is going nuts over comments made by Chris Christie and Rand Paul about vaccinations for children, he fails to mention that Obama expressed similar views when he was running for president.

MSNBC host Chris Matthews took Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) to task on his February 2 Hardball program for statements which he argued gave succor to so-called anti-vaxxers, parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of unfounded or overblown safety concerns. Matthews suggested both politicians were cynically angling for anti-vaxxer votes in the 2016 primaries at the cost of public health.

By contrast, Matthews hailed President Obama for telling NBC's Savannah Guthrie in a weekend interview that "the science is, you know, pretty indisputable.... There is every reason to get vaccinated, there aren't reasons to not get vaccinated."

For his part, MSNBC contributor Howard Dean, a medical doctor and former presidential candidate, agreed with Matthews's take.

...Of course, neither Matthews nor Dean made mention of how, in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama stated at a campaign event that the science on a vaccine link to autism was inconclusive.

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Matthews and Dean say nothing about Obama's past rejection of "science."

From Politico:

President Barack Obama called the science behind vaccinations “indisputable” on Monday, but he was not always such a staunch believer in getting children vaccinated.

In 2008, as a senator and presidential candidate, Obama discussed the possible link between vaccines and autism.

“We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate,” Obama said in April 2008 at a rally in Pennsylvania. “Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included.”

(Shortly after the comments, Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor supplied a video showing that Obama had pointed to a member of the audience when he said “this person included.”)

Obama continued, “The science is right now inconclusive, but we have to research it.”

...By April 2008, when Obama was claiming research was inconclusive, scientists had already overwhelmingly rejected any causal relationship between vaccinations and autism.

...Now, the U.S. faces a new outbreak of measles, due in part to the refusal of some parents to vaccinate their children. According to Frieden, the outbreak can be stopped “if we vaccinate well” and “increase those vaccination rates” so that fewer Americans are left “vulnerable.”

This time, Obama is speaking out in favor of vaccination in general — though it’s not clear whether he’s changed his mind about the link between vaccines and autism specifically. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

“The science is, you know, pretty indisputable,” Obama told the “Today Show.” “We’ve looked at this again and again. There is every reason to get vaccinated, but there aren’t reasons to not.”

Obama has some explaining to do.

Will the press demand that?

No. Obama doesn't need to address his inconsistencies, ever.

He can say anything. Whatever works. Whatever fits the moment.

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From The Hill

Dr. Ben Carson, a potential Republican presidential candidate, on Monday strongly backed vaccinations, splitting from two possible rivals who suggested parents should decide whether to immunize their children.

"Although I strongly believe in individual rights and the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit, I also recognize that public health and public safety are extremely important in our society,” Carson, one of the world’s most prominent and well-regarded pediatric neurosurgeons, told The Hill in a statement.

“Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical, religious or other reasons when we have the means to eradicate them,” he added.

Thank you, Dr. Carson.

Howard Dean: Employers and ObamaCare

Howard Dean thinks it's a good thing that most small businesses will be forced to drop their private health insurance programs and employees will have no choice but to be pushed into the government-run system.

Of course, Obama has insisted that if you're happy with your health care and your doctor then you can stick with your current plan. Nothing will change.

That, of course, is a crock. Obama and his Democrat comrades are liars when it comes to the realities of ObamaCare.

At least Howard Dean admits the truth of what will happen under Obama's plan.

Dean welcomes you to socialized medicine!


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Howard Dean, Ground Zero Mosque: Transcript, Audio

Howard Dean hasn't received this much attention since January 19, 2004, when he addressed his supporters after a disappointing third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. (Those remarks, of course, included the infamous Dean Scream.)

His remarks on the mosque at Ground Zero have rocked the Democrats. In an interview with WABC Radio's David Goodman, Dean expressed his opposition to the location of the mosque. That sent the Dems over the edge.

Leftists didn't want to believe it. Because the audio appeared on Andrew Breitbart's site, some questioned whether Dean's comments had been artfully edited for maximum political effect. Their Tweets revealed their desperation.

Example:

.@jedlewison @benpolitico I'm still holding out hope that this is one of those Breitbart edit jobs and that Dean isn't saying this mess.

Example:

@RFernandez666 I got it from @benpolitico, @ggreenwald is trying to find another source for the audio. It's just you can't trust Breitbart.

That was wishful thinking by the Leftists.

Dean's words weren't edited to mislead. They weren't taken out of context.

Here's the audio:



Transcript

DAVID GOODMAN: Governor, what's your position on the controversy surrounding the mosque near Ground Zero?

HOWARD DEAN: I've got to believe there has to be a compromise here. Um, this isn't about the rights of Muslims to have a worship center, or Jews, or Christians, or anybody else to have a place to worship, any place at Ground Zero. This is something that we ought to be able to work out with people of good faith.

And we have to understand that it is a real affront to people who've lost their lives, including Muslims. That site doesn't belong to any particular religion. Uh, it belongs to all Americans and all faiths. So I think a good reasonable compromise could be worked out without violating the principle that people ought to be able to worship as they see fit.

GOODMAN: You're calling for a compromise. So are you calling for the mosque to be moved?

DEAN: Well, I think another site would be a better idea. Again, but I would look to do that with the collaboration of the people who are trying to build the mosque. There's no point..., I think, I believe that the people who are trying to build the mosque are trying to do something that's good. But there's no point in starting off trying to do something that's good if it's going to meet with an enormous resistance from a lot of folks.

This is a very delicate, difficult religious, uh, and cultural issue.

Uh, I think it's great to have mosques in American cities. There's a growing number of American Muslims. I think most of those Muslims are moderate. I hope that, I hope that they'll have an influence on Islam throughout the world, because Islam is really back in the 12th century in some of these countries, like Iran and Afghanistan, where they're stoning people to death. And that can be fixed. And the way it's fixed is not by pushing Muslims away. It's by embracing them and have them become just like every other American, Americans who happen to be Muslims. So the way you do that is to integrate people into the fabric of the United States, which I think is what this congregation wants to do. But I do think that we ought to work out a compromise so that everybody is accommodated by this.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Dean made it clear that he meant what he said earlier in the day on WABC -- not at Ground Zero.

In an interview late Wednesday, former DNC Chair Howard Dean reiterated his belief that the controversial "Ground Zero" mosque should be re-located, arguing that critics of his position were "guilty of" the same type of absolutism on the issue that they've accused Republicans of harboring.

The former Governor of Vermont told the Huffington Post that he "stood by" the remarks he had made earlier in the day on WABC radio in which he called the mosque plan "a real affront to people who lost their lives [on 9/11]." But in a clarification of sorts, he stressed that he would not have a problem if the proposed Islamic cultural center ultimately ended up being built in the current location.

"It won't upset me," Dean said, "except I think it is a missed opportunity to show some flexibility... I don't believe all this nonsense the right wing is putting out about radicals and all that stuff. I take the congregation at its word that it is a moderate congregation trying to heal the wounds of 9/11. But the best way to heal the wounds is not to have a court battle, but to sit down and try to work things out."

..."They don't have to move," Dean said. "But the fact of the matter is, for better or worse, since 9/11 this country has been badly divided -- particularly by right wing politicians exploiting those divisions -- and this is an opportunity to bring the country together."

Dean's sentiments put him in, what surely seems like, rare political standing. The former DNC chair is not the first Democrat to oppose the current location for the Cordoba House. But he is the first critic to hail from the progressive community that, by and large, has viewed the debate over the mosque as a litmus test of sorts for a politician's commitment to constitutional rights and religious tolerance. Indeed, when Dean's viewpoints were broadcast, it was met with a mix of horror and anger from, what usually are, his chief defenders.

"I've seen a lot of the comments about this and a lot of it is silly that I'm agreeing with Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich," Dean said in response to the criticism. "That's just silly. I don't believe in race baiting..."

I don't know if Dean's shots at Palin and Gingrich will be enough to placate the angry Left.

There is such a divide in this country. The Democrats and Republicans sometimes seem like opposing armies, enemies at war with well-drawn battle lines. You're either with us or against us, that sort of thing.

I'm so sick of it.

At least with Obama vacationing on Martha's Vineyard for the next ten days, maybe we'll get a breather. A little ceasefire would be nice.

That's unlikely. The media abhor a vacuum.

Howard Dean: Obama Not Liberal Enough

Howard Dean believes he knows why Scott Brown won in Massachusetts.

He told the BBC what went wrong for Obama.

HOWARD DEAN: I think the major thing is that the American people are very angry. They're angry at Washington. They're angry at the Wall Street establishment. And they elected and voted for Barack Obama because they wanted change. And what they got was a very convoluted health care bill with lots of compromising and special interest fights and partisan fights. And they didn't think they got a health care bill. That was part of it.

Wall Street people are getting big bonuses. It doesn't look like the government is taking them on. So, what you have is somewhat of a populist revolt here.

Howard Dean -- still crazy after all these years.

There is a revolt, but the Democrats don't understand it. At least they're claiming they don't understand it.

Can they be that clueless or is the spin just a desperate attempt to appear in control?

DEAN: This is not, contrary to what a lot of American pundits are talking about, this is not a revolt of the Right. This is Barack Obama's core base not thinking that we've done what he was asked to do.

There certainly are some radical Leftists upset with Obama for not pushing through an extremist agenda.

But what happened in Massachusetts and what happened in Virginia and New Jersey isn't about Obama not lurching far enough to the Left.

I really think the Dems are digging themselves into a deeper hole by suggesting the way to win back the support of the majority of Americans is by playing to the fringe Left.

Does Dean know that conservatives dramatically outnumber liberals in the American populace?

Independents are swinging to the Right, and away from the policies of the very liberal Obama.

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Howard Dean and Van Jones

On FOX News Sunday, former DNC chairman Howard Dean touted Van Jones' qualifications and expressed regret that Jones resigned as Obama's "green jobs" czar. Then, he gave an implausible explanation for how Van Jones' name ended up on that 9/11 truther petition.



Transcript

HOWARD DEAN: I know this guy, and I just talked to him this so I'd like to weigh in after John [Podesta] does.

CHRIS WALLACE: Go ahead.

DEAN: I was just gonna say this guy's a Yale-educated lawyer. He's a best-selling author about his specialty. I think he was brought down. I think it's too bad. Washington's a tough place that way, and I think it's a loss for the country.

WALLACE: Governor, how about the fact that he had made a series of statements and had signed this petition in 2004 indicating, suggesting that the government might have had some role or some complicity in 9/11?

DEAN: Well, he was told by the people waving those clipboards around that he was signing something else. So, that's too bad. Look, all of us campaigning for office have had people throw clipboards in front of our face and ask us to sign. He learned the hard way. He ought not to do that, but I don't think he really thinks the government had anything to do with causing 9/11.

That's ridiculous.

Jones signed that petition accidentally. He ws duped into believing he was signing "something else"?

Yeah, right.

What "else"?

That's a stunningly lame excuse.

A Yale-educated professor attaches his name to someone waving a clipboard at him.

Someone throws a clipboard with a petition in front of Jones' face and he signs it without reading it?

No way.

Are we to believe Jones would be that careless regarding his professional reputation?

Dean says, "I don't think he really thinks the government had anything to do with causing 9/11."

He can think whatever he wants. What Dean thinks isn't the point. It's what Jones thinks.

I don't buy that Yale-educated professor, best-selling author Jones didn't know what he was signing.

I do think he really thinks the Bush administration had something to do with causing 9/11. It certainly would be consistent with his other extremist, twisted views.

I expect Jones to use all this attention and try to cash in on it with a vengeance. He'll probably be hitting the Lefty lecture circuit, stepping up his speaking appearances.

The martyr, victim of a vast Right-wing conspiracy, tells all.

Cha-ching!

No Public Option?

This is a victory for the American people.

Obama's goal of forcing government-run health care on the country to eventually arrive at his dream of a single-payer plan may be dead.



From the Washington Times:

In the face of strong public criticism at town-hall meetings and skepticism on Capitol Hill, Obama administration officials said Sunday that the president is willing to accept a health care proposal that includes nonprofit health insurance cooperatives rather than insist on a government-run insurance program.

The move was a major concession to conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans that quickly won applause from several lawmakers concerned that reform efforts were being sunk by fears that such a federally subsidized program would lead to a government takeover of health care.

"Look, the fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option. There never have been," Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, said on "Fox News Sunday." "So to continue to chase that rabbit, I think, is just a wasted effort."

Some prominent liberal Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, reiterated their faith in the public option. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas said it would be "very, very difficult" to win her support for a bill that did not include a public option.

Spokesmen for the top two Republicans on Capitol Hill were cautious when asked for reactions Sunday afternoon.

...Spokesmen for several ranking congressional Republicans said that while the concept of a health care co-op has merit, it's too early in the debate to say whether they would support such a plan.

A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said "it depends on how it's set up."

"If it's a government plan under a different name, it's not going to get support; it will be like having another Fannie and Freddie," said spokesman Don Stewart, referring to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the troubled government-sponsored companies that either guarantee or own almost half the nation's mortgages.

Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said "there is a lot of concern that co-ops would simply be a gateway drug to government-run health care," but he added, "It's hard to comment on a proposal no one has seen."

Jill Gerber, a spokeswoman for Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Senate Finance Committee's top Republican who has strongly opposed the public-option plan, said the senator is interested in the co-op approach, though she added that it "all depends on details and how things unfold."

I think there's reason to be skeptical about the co-op approach.

It would be a mistake to think that the Dems' openness to dropping the public option that Obama insisted had to be part of reform means that the threat of a government takeover of our health care system has passed.

I don't see this as a victory for opponents of government-run health care as much as I see it as an indication of just how vehemently against socialized medicine Americans are.

This co-op thing could really just be lipstick on a pig.

I don't believe that Obama and the rabid fringe Leftist Democrats are giving up that easily on their scheme to subject Americans to a government-run system.

This simply could be an effort to quiet the vocal opposition at the town hall meetings.

The smear campaign, all that "angry mob" talk and Nazi references, backfired on Obama and the Democrats. Time to try a new approach.

Extreme caution is in order, because they cannot be trusted.

Something to remember:

Nothing is standing in the way of the Democrats doing whatever they want.

Republicans do not have the power to block any legislation. They cannot serve as obstructionists.

Democrats are in control. The fact is the Democrat Party is fractured right now. The Republicans are't blocking anything.

Utlimately, the only thing preventing the Democrats from passing the bill, with or without a public option, is the American people.

Without their vocal opposition, there may have been a vote on the bill already.
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Howard Dean weighs in: "You really can't do health care reform without [a public option]."

From Breitbart, video of Howard Dean on the Today Show this morning.

MATT LAUER: Is it (public option) dead?

HOWARD DEAN: No. Uh, in fact, you really can't do health care reform without it.

SNL: Message from Rahm Emanuel (UNAIRED)

UPDATE, February 6, 2010: An Even-Tempered Apology from Rahm Emanuel
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This skit wasn't aired on Saturday Night Live. It's a WEB exclusive.

Transcript

DON PARDO: And now message from White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel.

ANDY SAMBERG as RAHM EMANUEL: Hello, I'm Rahm Emanuel, one-time congressman of Illinois' 5th District, and now, White House Chief of Staff-designate for President-elect Barack Obama. I believe we are at the dawn of a great new age in American politics. And I am proud and excited to be a part of it. At the same time, I understand that our country is facing great challenges, challenges that are going to require both parties to come together to find solutions.

Now, some on the right, such as minority leader John Baynor, have criticized my appointment as being hyperpartisan and have accused me of being prone to bare-knuckle tactics and profanity-laced tirades in the past. While it is true that my nickname is 'Rahmbo' and it is also true that my brother Ari is the basis for Jeremy Piven's character on Entourage, I want to assure you that I took this job for one reason only -- to support Barack Obama's message of hope and change.

Although I should say to anyone thinking about crossing me, I will f------- end you. You will never even see it coming. One day you will be here, and the next day you will f------ disappear.

And John Boehner? You seriously wanna f--- with me? You're losing seats in Congress like it's a game of f----- Musical Chairs, and you issue a press release about me, you f----- idiot? About me? You pull that s--- to my face, Baynor, and I will send you back to Ohio in a f------ box.

And that goes for Democrats as well as Republicans. You will get in f------ line or I will personally stamp your ticket. None of your f------ b---s--- on my watch, Lieberman. If it was up to me, we wouldn't just strip you of your chairmanship, we would strip you naked and make you walk your McCain-loving a-- back to Connecticut, you f------ turncoat.

You don't believe me? Ask Howard f------ Dean if I'm for real. He s---- himself when he hears me on the radio.

I'm sorry. Did you f------ say something? Are you f------ sure? Yeah, you better be f------ sure.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to address you tonight. I look forward to the coming months to setting out together on what I promise will be an incredible journey. Seriously, it's gonna be f------ amazing.

Howard Dean and the White Party

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DNC chairman Howard Dean has an infinite capacity to put his foot in his mouth.

He is a walking Freudian slip.

HOWARD DEAN: "If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party."

Howard Dean and Jay Leno

On Wednesday, Howard Dean was on The Tonight Show.

Dean was wearing a giant flag pin. I don’t know if that's a new addition for him, trying to give the country the impression that the Democrats don't have a fear of American flag pins. Whatever, it reminded me of those enormous, distracting pins that Madeleine Albright likes to wear. You couldn't miss it.

Jay Leno brought up the "Dream Ticket" notion. Naturally, Dean wouldn't choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Dean said that he has to be neutral, that he's still the referee and he wouldn’t take a side. He noted that the nominee gets to pick their own running mate.

That makes sense. Obviously, Dean didn’t want to alienate Hillary supporters by saying she should get out now. I think he decided that it's best for the party if he keeps his mouth shut in that regard.

Leno questioned Dean about the lengthy primary battle between Hillary and Obama and its potential to damage the party. Dean started to babble about having "50 primaries" and "35 million names" of voters. Then, it seemed as if the tape was edited. In any case, there was a sharp interruption in the flow of the conversation.

Dean said both Dem candidates would take the country forward. of course, he said that John McCain will take the country backward. No surprise there.

Leno asked about the Florida and Michigan mess. He argued that the states should play by the rules. Dean countered that the Democrat Party didn’t want to punish the voters because the politicians screwed things up.

Dean said there will be a compromise, and like all compromises, not everyone will be happy. However, he believes that Florida and Michigan will be seated on the floor of the convention. Dean noted that the Dems need to win Florida and Michigan in November.

Leno asked Dean's opinion on John Edwards' endorsement of Obama.

Dean replied, "I'm not allowed to have an opinion."

They chatted about Edwards releasing his delegates. Dean said that he released his delegates when he lost to John Kerry in the 2004 election.

Basically, Dean was blah. He had nothing new to say. His segment wasn't entertaining and it wasn't interesting.

Dean Predicts Dem Victory

Howard Dean says that the next president of the United States will be a Democrat.

Gee, I didn't see that coming!

Madison -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called for unity Tuesday, telling supporters to advocate for their preferred candidate but to rally behind whoever earns the Democratic nomination.

"The only way John McCain wins is if we're divided," Dean said, referring to the U.S. senator from Arizona who has locked up the Republican nomination.

The Democratic nomination has turned into a protracted battle for delegates between U.S. Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Dean said the eventual nominee will come out of the drawn-out fight a stronger candidate because he or she has learned to take fire from opponents.

"We're going to win this," Dean said. "I can't tell you whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is going to be the next president of the United States, but one of them is going to be the next president of the United States."

The $25-per-person fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee at the Majestic Theatre drew more than 150 supporters.

Dean says, "We're going to win this."

I wouldn't count on it. Dean doesn't have the best track record when it comes to predictions.

Remember what Dean said following his loss in Iowa, 2004?

Well, you guys, you have already got the picture here. I was about to say, you know, I'm sure there are some disappointed people here. You know what, you know something, you know something, if you had told us one year ago that we were going to come in third in Iowa, we would have given anything for that. And, you know something, not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin, we're going to South Carolina, and Oklahoma, and Arizona, and North Dakota, and New Mexico. We're going to California, and Texas, and New York. And we're going to South Dakota, and Oregon, and Washington, and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House. Yeeaaahhhh!

Didn't happen.

Only 150 supporters at $25-per-person showed up for the fund-raiser in Madison?

That's a very small group to attend such a low-priced fund-raiser.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are raking in tens of millions of dollars monthly. It's not as if Dems are having problems raising money.

At this event in Madison, Howard Dean didn't exactly pack 'em in.

Dean: Dems Have No Bars to Heaven

I was just thinking about Howard Dean. I was wondering what he's been up to lately.

He's still out there, still being Howard Dean.

From Politico:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean came out for inclusive team prayers in public schools while speaking Sunday to a gathering of thousands of Jewish leaders, according to a leading Jewish news agency.

In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according to the report by JTA, a 90-year-old non-profit organization which calls itself “the global news service of the Jewish people.”

...The news agency said Dean made the remarks to 3,500 Jewish leaders at the opening plenary session of the annual General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities which the group calls “the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world.”

The report said Dean’s comments followed an address by the University of Tennessee's head basketball coach, Bruce Pearl (former UWM basketball coach), who told the crowd that as a Jewish student in public schools, he always felt uncomfortable when he was playing sports and his team's pre-game prayers would end with an invocation to Jesus.

"This country is not a theocracy," Dean said, according to JTA. "There are fundamental differences between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party believes that everybody in this room ought to be comfortable being an American Jew, not just an American; that there are no bars to heaven for anybody; that we are not a one-religion nation; and that no child or member of a football team ought to be able to cringe at the last line of a prayer before going onto the field."

...The report said that in a “decidedly partisan speech,” Dean “painted the Republican Party as religiously and racially exclusive.”

So a vote for the Dems is a vote for liberty and heaven for all.

A chicken in every pot. A car in every garage. A pass to get into heaven.

Promises, promises.

Dean is so divisive. The Dems' outreach to people of faith isn't a positive movement. It plays on negativity. I don't think the Dems will be successful in their attempt to paint themselves as the religion-friendly party at the same time that they use faith as a means to divide.

And to think that four years ago it appeared that Dean was on the road to being the Democrat party's nominee for president.

The Power Mad Dr. Dean

Howard Dean amuses me.

Don't get me wrong. I think he's bad for the country. On occasion, he behaves like a true enemy of America.

Nonetheless, he's funny. He's a clown.

I love this, from The Politico:

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has been meeting with world leaders to repair "the extraordinary damage" that the Bush administration has done to America's image and to prepare the way for a new Democratic president.

"I am trying to build relationships with other governments in preparation for a Democratic takeover," Dean told me. "I want to make clear that there is an opposition in America and that we are ready to take power and that when we do, we are going to have much better relationships with them."

He sounds like John Kerry.

Remember when Kerry claimed that he had the support of world leaders during the 2004 election?

Kerry said: "I've met more leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, 'You got to win this. You got to beat this guy.' "

Now we have Dr. Dean meeting with world leaders, engaging in a parallel diplomacy.

In 2000, I don't recall RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson going around the world trying to repair the damage done by Bill Clinton and his incompetent administration.

What's with these Dems thinking that they can undercut current leadership?

Dean is power mad.

...Dean is very concerned about world affairs and believes that after the November election in 2008, the president-elect should take a month off and travel the world to bolster America's image.

"During the Cold War, we certainly had people who didn't like us, but they respected us," Dean said. "Now, unfortunately, they don't like us and they don't respect us. And that needs to be fixed. And I consider one of my informal jobs to help fix it with like-minded world leaders so we do have some relationships."

Dean and the Dems are clueless.

Why did people respect us during the Cold War?

We were tough.

When we had a wimpy leader (Jimmy Carter), we weren't respected.

Thankfully, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush restored our place of power.

As a result, millions of people were freed from the oppression of the Soviet Union and tyrants like Saddam Hussein. These Republicans weren't appeasers.

Dr. Dean and his comrades need to learn that foreign policy isn't a popularity contest.

Howard Dean, Ann Coulter, and John Edwards

Howard Dean has resurfaced.

He'd gone missing. It seems like weeks since he's had anything to say.

Who brought Dr. Dean out of hiding?

Ann Coulter.

NEW YORK -- In recent years she has suggested that Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore have or may have homosexual tendencies. Now columnist/author Ann Coulter has targeted former senator (and current candidate for president) John Edwards.

Speaking today at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Coulter closed her remarks with: “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I -- so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”

Audience members appeared startled, then many clapped, and she opened the floor to questions. The event was carried on C-SPAN.

Democratic Party chief Howard Dean weighed in later: "There is no place in political discourse for this kind of hate-filled and bigoted comments. While Democrats and Republicans may disagree on the issues, we should all be able to agree that this kind of vile rhetoric is out of bounds. The American people want a serious, thoughtful debate of the issues. Republicans -- including the Republican presidential candidates who shared the podium with Ann Coulter today -- should denounce her hateful remarks."

While I agree with Dr. Dean that Ann Coulter's comments were terribly inappropriate, I think only she is responsible for what she says.

She needs to be held accountable, not the Republican Party or any of the Republican presidential contenders.

Ann Coulter is not the voice of the GOP; and last I heard, she's not running for president.

I'm not defending Coulter at all, but I do find it laughable that Dean is bent out of shape over "vile rhetoric." It seems whenever he opens his mouth something vile dribbles out.


"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."


Does that qualify as a "hateful remark"?

Here's a few more choice Deanisms:

Dean: “I’m Tired Of The Ayatollahs Of The Right Wing … (Josie Huang, “Dean Calls For End To ‘Culture Of Corruption’,” Portland [ME] Press Herald, 10/23/05)


Dean: “Republicans Always Divide People.” (Carla Marinucci, “Dean: The Mouth That Won’t Stop Roaring,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/8/05)


Dean: “These Guys [Republicans] Are Bad For Democracy. They Are Not Interested In Ideas But Interested In Power And They Are Not Interested In The Best Interest Of The American People.” (MSNBC’s “Hardball,” 10/6/05)


Dean: “The R.N.C. … They Love To Play The Victim. The Truth Is They Are A White Christian Party.” (ABC’s “The View,” 9/15/05)


Dean: “These Guys [Republicans] Are Bad For Democracy. They Are Not Interested In Ideas But Interested In Power And They Are Not Interested In The Best Interest Of The American People. That’s Why They Will Be Gone In 2006.” (MSNBC’s “Hardball,” 10/6/05)


Dean: “I’m Not Sure He [Chief Justice Roberts] Loves The American People.” (CNN’s “The Situation Room,” 9/9/05)


Dean: “New England Republicans Are Different Than Most. They Are More Reasonable And Thoughtful …” (Cole Manning, “Dean Works To Energize State’s Democratic Party,” Foster’s Online, 8/11/05)


Dean: “You Know, The Republicans Are Not Very Friendly To Different Kinds Of People. They’re A Pretty Monolithic Party. (Carla Marinucci, “Dean: The Mouth That Won’t Stop Roaring,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/8/05)


Dean: “They [Republicans] All Behave The Same. They All Look The Same. It’s Pretty Much A White Christian Party.” (Carla Marinucci, “In S.F., Dean Calls GOP ‘A White Christian Party,’” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/7/05)


Dean: “[L]ord Knows This Administration Is Beginning To Erode The Core Of Our Democracy.” (DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Remarks At Campaign For America’s Future “Take Back America Conference,” DC, 6/2/05)


Dean: “[R]epublicans … A Lot Of Them Have Never Made An Honest Living In Their Lives.” (DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Remarks At Campaign For America’s Future “Take Back America Conference,” DC, 6/2/05)


Dean: “I Hate What The Republicans Are Doing To This Country. I Really Do.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 5/22/05)


Dean: “Republicans Are All About Suppressing Votes ...” (DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Remarks At Campaign For America’s Future, “Take Back America Conference,” Washington, D.C., 6/2/05)


“Appearing On The Liberal Air America Radio In Minnesota, Dean Said Republicans Are, Quote, ‘Mean. They’re Not Nice People. They Want To Run Nearly Every Aspect Of Your Life,’ End Quote.” (Fox News’ “Special Report,” 4/5/05)


Dean Called Republicans “Brain-Dead.” (Peter Gorrie, “Spreading The Message,” Toronto Star, 3/20/05)


Dean On Republicans And Democrats: “This Is A Struggle Of Good And Evil. And We’re The Good.” (Joel Mathis, “Dean Roars Into Town,” Lawrence [KS] Journal-World, 2/26/05)


“During A Meeting … With The Democratic Black Caucus, Dean … Questioned Republicans’ Ability To Rally Support From Minorities. ‘You Think The Republican National Committee Could Get This Many People Of Color In A Single Room?’ Dean Asked To Laughter. ‘Only If They Had The Hotel Staff In Here.’” (Nancy Benac, “Dean Ready To Take Charge Of Democrats,” The Associated Press, 2/11/05)


And then there was that little misunderstanding about gay marriage. Dr. Dean misstated the Democrat Party platform while courting evangelicals. You might call it a lie.

Dean: "The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says." (David Brody, "Howard Dean: Democrats Have Much in Common with Evangelicals," CBN News, 5/11/06)

I'm sure that someone on the Left could match every idiotic thing uttered by Democrat Party Chairman Howard Dean with something idiotic uttered by Ann Coulter.

It should be remembered that their comments do not carry equal weight. Ann Coulter is not a spokesperson for the Republican Party. She speaks for herself.

Furthermore, I don't hear Ann Coulter demanding that Democrats and Dem presidential candidates apologize for what Dean says.

I also don't hear Dean calling for his ranks to apologize to Michael Steele, Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, and other conservative African-Americans for throwing all those ugly racial slurs and oreos at them.

Dean doesn't demand that former President Carter apologize for his anti-Semitic remarks.

Dean doesn't insist that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson apologize for making ethnic slurs.

Clearly, Dean cherry picks when it comes to denouncing "vile rhetoric."

He's a hypocrite.

Still, the ugly truth about Howard Dean in no way excuses Ann Coulter.

It's unfortunate that she keeps pushing the envelope, trying to "out-Coulter" herself.

It was in incredibly bad taste to make that joke about John Edwards. There's plenty to criticize about Edwards. Her comment was a cheap, offensive shot. I think that was intentional.

Coulter is an intelligent woman. She knew exactly what she was doing.

Coulter seems to be more interested in grabbing attention and headlines for herself than in furthering conservative principles.

Her shtick may win her some fans and help her books become best-sellers, but she's hurting the conservative movement by giving libs ammunition. Obviously, she doesn't care.

The fact is the current level of discourse in politics, thanks to the likes of Howard Dean and Ann Coulter, is not good for the country.

Lots of apologies are in order.

Dr. Dean: Courage

"Behold, the power of cheese."

Speaking at the national convention of the College Democrats, Howard Dean expressed the necessity for courting Midwestern voters.

In his address, he sounded a bit like Dan Rather.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Winning votes in the Midwest will be crucial to Democratic hopes to regain power in Washington in November, party Chairman Howard Dean told about 400 young people at the College Democrats National Convention on Thursday.

"We cannot be a national party unless we have the courage to ask every single American for their vote," Dean said.

What does that mean?

Courage.

It takes "courage" to campaign in the Midwest?

That sounds like a clear admission from Dean that Democrats are not only completely out of touch with the people in fly-over country, but that Dems find the thought of appealing to them for votes to be a frightening mission.

Since Dean took the reins of the Democratic Party, he has been talking about this "50-state plan." It seems like forever.

The thing is I don't see Dems offering anything that would cause the Red State vote to turn blue.

Well, there was that time back in May when Dean tried to pass off that his party considered marriage to be between a man and a woman.
He said:

"The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says."

Of course, Dean had to apologize for not being familiar with his own party's platform when the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force complained about Dean's remarks.

Dean was forced to admit, "I misstated the Democratic Party's platform, which does not say marriage should be limited to a man and a woman."

Yes, Dean knows that he must find a way to win over all of those people in the middle of the country who don't believe in the extreme liberal agenda that the Dems have adopted in the past couple of decades.

He knows he needs their votes, but other than by "misstating" the Dems' positions, he hasn't figured out a way to convert them.

I'm afraid courage isn't the answer.

Far Left extremism is the face of today's Democratic Party. Dean will need to either abandon that philosophy (not going to happen) or do his best to mask it.

Dr. Dean: Middle East Crisis is Bush's Fault!

I know politics is a dirty business; but Howard Dean's comments at a conference at San Diego State University on Saturday really make me sick.

From The San Diego Union-Tribune:

"You know, people say the Republicans are tough on defense. How can you be tough on defense if five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large, the Iranians are about to get nuclear weapons, North Korea's quadrupled their nuclear weapons stash....

"Explain to me how it is that this president is tough on defense? I think this president is weak on defense and he's hurt America because he hasn't done the right thing," Dean said.

...Dean said the Bush administration's decision to go to war against Iraq and its overall foreign policy have hurt America's standing in the world.

"This country is in the worst shape since Richard Nixon, and probably before that," Dean said.

"We've lost the high moral high ground everywhere in the world. We want to be respected around the world again.

"We want our moral authority to be restored, because part of defending America is not just well-armed troops; it's having the high moral ground."

Dean's been saying that sort of stuff since the 2004 primaries.

He's wrong of course, but there's nothing new there.

The following comment, addressing the escalating hostilities in Israel and Lebanon, goes into previously uncharted territory.

Dean says that Dems could have prevented the crisis in the Middle East. The implication is that this is all Bush's fault.

In an apparent reference to Israeli military action deep inside Lebanon, Dean said:

"If you think what's going on in the Middle East today would be going on if the Democrats were in control, it wouldn't, because we would have worked day after day after day to make sure we didn't get where we are today. We would have had the moral authority that Bill Clinton had when he brought together the Northern Irish and the IRA, when he brought together the Israelis and the Palestinians."

What an absolute crock!

If anything, a case could be made that what's going on in the Middle East is going on because Dems were in control and had the presidency for eight years.

To suggest that Bill Clinton's "moral authority" (What an oxymoron!) would have prevented the recent violent eruptions in the Middle East is irresponsible.

When were the 9/11 attacks hatched?

During the Bill Clinton era of "moral authority."

I guess Dr. Dean forgot about that, or maybe he doesn't know.

Dr. Dean also seems to be forgetting or ignorant about all the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and U.S. interests prior to 9/11.

The first WTC attack
The Khobar Towers bombing
The bombings of our embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The USS Cole bombing

I think the disaster in Mogadishu, the retreat and defeat there, also deserves to be mentioned.

The golden years of Bill Clinton's "moral authority" weren't so golden, were they?

All happened under Clinton's watch, yet Dean has the nerve to say that the era of Dem control was a peaceful, idyllic time thanks to the "moral authority" of the U.S.

Chairman Dean is a lying political hack.

Is that part of the job description for the head of the DNC?

At this time of global uncertainty, Dean's comments are inexcusable.

To say that what's happening now in the Middle East wouldn't be happening if Dems were in control is about as ridiculous as saying "Bill Clinton" and "moral authority" in the same sentence.