Dean Was Right

for the last several years, the democratic party has been, for the most part, leaving skid marks on the street as they have retreated from confrontation after confrontation with the radicals who now control the republican party. this retreat has gone from the ridiculous to the sublime to the utterly outrageous. and then along comes Howard Dean, chairman of the dnc, outspoken and uncompromising, swinging willie stark’s meat ax with a will and a purpose. he dared to say that he hates republicans, that the leadership of that party hasn’t worked a day in their lives, that the gop has become a radical hothouse of right-wing christians, almost all of whom are white, and that house majority leader tom delay should go back to texas and get his looming prison sentence over with. insert palpi...