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Friday, October 09, 2009
Howard Dean Supports the Opt-Out
He sees the opt-out compromise as a pragmatic step for getting a public option.The opt-out is being heatedly dismissed on the left, but we implicitly trust Dr. MeanDean, especially on health-care reform.
Given a strong public option in a national health insurance reform, we would bet that many of our more Republican states would allow their political leaders to huff and puff about how awful it all was while conveniently forgetting to opt out ... sort of the way they publicly eschewed the stimulus money but took it anyway.
And those red state legislators who do opt out will be exposed to their constituents as caring much more about insurance industry profits than their citizens.
Labels: health care, Howard Dean
Monday, August 17, 2009
We Stand With Dean
Former Gov. Dean calls public option indispensable.
But apparently the Republicans are still running the government.
But apparently the Republicans are still running the government.
Labels: health care, Howard Dean
Friday, January 09, 2009
Is Rahm Emanuel Really That Petty?
Politico is reporting that the Obama team dissed Howard Dean by deliberately staging the transfer of power at the Democratic National Committee while Doctor Dean was 7,000 miles away, where he was actually doing his job. Apparently, there'll be no acknowledgment of Dean's 50-state strategy as the proximate cause of the Obama victory ... let alone no high-profile job for Dean in the Obama administration.Joe Trippi, who was Dean's main man in the primary campaign of 2004, says it's all Rahm Emanuel's doing.
The prick.
Labels: Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, Rahm Emanuel
Thursday, November 06, 2008
'Emanuel' Means 'God With Us'
I can applaud the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as the President-elect's chief of staff because it's evidence of Obama's executive skill. You get the meanest sumbitch you know to make sure the trains run on time. It's not that you necessarily WANT the meanest sumbitch (that's just icing on the cake, far as I'm concerned); it's because Emanuel has a proven track record of getting stuff done.But we haven't forgotten how wrong Rahm Emanuel was back in the spring of 2006 when he got into a shouting match with Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean over how best to run the fall races that year. The meanest sumbitch in the Democratic Congressional caucus met his match in Howard Dean, who had taken over the DNC in 2005 with the express intention of launching a 50-state strategy.
Dean was right. Emanuel was wrong. Dean, in fact, deserves no small credit for what just happened last Tuesday. Without Howard Dean's change of direction from the Clinton-era tactic of triangulation and targeted spending (a.k.a., giving up on over half the land-mass of North America), Barack Obama would never have won North Carolina. Nor probably Virginia. Nor Indiana. I won't go on, though I could.
We have no quarrel with Emanuel's hard-nosed effectiveness and don't even blame him for flaming out with Dean over a difference of opinion. We're just glad he's going to be in the White House to take orders from Obama. Someone said on TV last night that Obama seems to be a "born executive leader," and having a dependable hit-man is what every born executive needs for Christmas.
Labels: Barack Obama, Howard Dean, Rahm Emanuel
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy Finds a Champion
ALL 50 states, goldarn it! Starting with North Carolina tomorrow.
This we like!
This we like!
Labels: Barack Obama, Howard Dean
