Saturday, June 11, 2005
Democrats are complaining that Howard Dean is a distracting figure (imagine!), and blaming...the VRWC.
Washington Times: Durbin blames 'right wing'
"I think we all understand what's happening with you all," said Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, in remarks echoing Hillary Rodham Clinton's blaming a "vast right-wing conspiracy" for her husband's legal-ethical woes.
"The right wing has got the agenda moving. Fox [News Channel] and everybody's got the agenda. It's all about Howard Dean. You've bought into it," Mr. Durbin said.
"You can't let up on it. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves."
Mr. Dean, who took over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee four months ago, has caused a stir with a string of public statements that he "hates the Republican Party and everything it stands for" and that its members are "liars," "evil," "corrupt" and "brain-dead."
Senate Democrats emerged from a Capitol Hill meeting with Mr. Dean, a former Vermont governor, yesterday touting their message of the day: Change the subject...
Howard Dean perfectly represents so much of what's wrong with today's Democratic Party -- shrill, thrashing -- and the reaction to him in the party is the other side of the coin -- a demonstrated inability to look inward and be honest about their own problems, instead pointing and blaming other for having the audacity to point out their obvious issues.
Speaking of which, see Michelle Malkin: Reporter Challenges Dean; MSM Horrified!
Awwwwww.
Wilson raised his voice. And he didn't wait his turn. And he didn't ask "substantive" questions. Translation: He didn't genuflect before the Democratic leadership or the Beltway journalistic elite, and he asked exactly what viewers wanted to know...
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"[Wilson] asked exactly what viewers wanted to know..."
The viewers wanted to know whether Dean hates white Christians?