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Dean of Scream Dean calls for end to 'culture of corruption'
By JOSIE HUANG, Portland Press Herald Writer
Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
LEWISTON — The Bush White House is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history since President Warren G. Harding's, said Howard Dean during his first visit to Maine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dean's comments Saturday came as top White House advisers are being investigated for their roles in the outing of a CIA operative and Tom DeLay, the former second-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, faces conspiracy and money-laundering charges.
"The first thing we're going to do is we're going to have ethics come back to Washington again," said Dean, the keynote speaker at Saturday night's annual fundraising dinner for the Maine Democratic Party at the Lewiston Armory.
To deal with the "culture of corruption," Dean said, there needs to be an ethics code in Congress and stronger campaign finance laws.
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More than 400 party loyalists listened as Dean described Democrats as a party of moral values, while criticizing Republicans as trying to divide Americans over race, sexual orientation and country of origin. (Heh.. you'd think that Dean had never heard of multiculturalism).
Geeze... Anyone else see a disconnect here? Culture of Corruption? Hmmmm... me thinks that the pot doth screameth too loudly. Remember
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Dean said Republicans should not have interfered in the Terri Schiavo right-to-life case.
"I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing," Dean said. (This from a guy who only minutes before proclaimed themselves the party of moral values?) "We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America."
And then Dean has the balls to...
LEWISTON — The Bush White House is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history since President Warren G. Harding's, said Howard Dean during his first visit to Maine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
I guess lies just come trippingly to the tongue to these moonbats... as second nature as stinging is to a scorpion. So much hyperbole and hypocrisy... and so little time. I'll repeat again what I wrote in
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Just makes me wonder why the republicans aren't making political hay regarding democrat abuses of power, which have been legion these past five years. Now I know that it is merely second nature for democrats to seize opportunities to point their collective bony finger of indignation at republican "scandals", real or imagined; but it just isn't in the Republican party's collective nature to respond in kind. Now this could be seen as both a positive and a negative. The republicans' collective tendency to take the high road in these matters may (correctly) portray the image that they are above taking the cheap political shot. But at the same time they run the danger of alienating their base, who feel that their party has become a doormat of sorts and who in turn view their leadership as weak-kneed and ineffective in standing up to the dems. Many in the republican base are disaffected as it is, and it will take some real red meat to energize them. Although at times it may indeed be a good idea to "walk away" from a confrontation, the current climate suggests that now is not one of those times. The now-disaffected republican base are looking for leadership who will grow a spine and stand up for their interests. If this does not happen, look for much of the base to "vote" by staying home in 2006.
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