Howard Dean has been doing an incredible job as chairman of the Democratic party. He has not only managed to decrease their funding (at a time when Republicans control both branches of Congress and the White House, and Democrats would be interested in changing that), but he does it all with both feet crammed securely into his mouth. One wonders how he can get from place to place in such a posture, much less keep up the stream of stupid comments and statements that conflict with the party line, but somehow he manages to do it. Robert Novak has more on Dean and his upcoming appearance with Tim Russert on Meet The Press. It should be a good time — a well prepared Russert reduces Dean to a quivering mass of cliches and invective, pronounced around both feet and quite likely the majority of both legs as well.
And just think: many Democrats wanted Dean to be President!
UPDATE 5/19/05 10.40AM: Forgot to include this tidbit as an example of people backing slowly away from Dean. Unfortunately for Democrats, most of the red states that Dean has been visiting would respond most to moderate dissent to current Republican positions: a stance Dean can’t seem to master.