5/23/2005 09:49:00 AM|||Buzz|||It's probably just a slip up, but it's still funny. Here's a quote from Howard Dean on yesterday's Meet The Press
"But the thing that really bothered me the most, which the 9-11 Commission said also wasn't true, is the insinuation that the president continues to make to this day that Osama bin Laden had something to do with supporting terrorists that attacked the United States. That is false. The 9-11 Commission, chaired by a Republican, said it was false."
View the video here: Jackson's Junction: Video: Sunday Insanity - Howard Dean
Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs
Michelle Malkin has more on this story.
Now surely Dean meant that the 9-11 Commission said that Saddam had no direct involvement with the 9-11 attacks, but Dean is flat out wrong when he says that Bush made such a claim. Others speculated that Iraq was involved in the 9-11 attacks, but Bush never made that claim.
Dean also continued to attack Tom DeLay by claiming that DeLay would serve time in jail. This kind of rhetoric has been denounced by people like Barney Frank, who by the way, is no friend of Mr. DeLay. Dean also defended his scurrilous attack on Rush Limbaugh where Dean pretended to be snorting cocaine.
Howard Dean remains defiant and is causing great harm to the Democrat Party and Democrats are right to be concerned. Consider this quote from Robert Novack's 5/19/05 article Dean vs. Russert: It'll be a scream
Dean's election by the DNC membership was a case of the inmates seizing control of the asylum. After the 2004 election, party leaders spent more than three months in a fruitless effort to find an alternative to Dean. Their fears of money drying up under Dean have largely been realized, but they have deluded themselves into thinking the former Vermont governor who screamed his way out of any hope for the 2004 presidential nomination was under firm restraint.
Democrats have lost the last two Presidential elections, continue to lose seats in the Congress and have very little news that could be encouraging. They have elected a leader in Howard Dean who will not present the public face they need to turn things around. Coupled with the Democrat's Congressional leadership of Nancy Pelosi in the House and Harry Reid in the Senate and you have three people who have nothing positive to say and no program to offer the people of America. As a Republican, I enjoy seeing the Democrats in disarray, but Americas needs two vibrant political Parties both offering viable public policy alternatives. Right now, the Democrat Party is headed toward oblivion.|||111685618245998351|||Dean's Coming Out Party