HOWARD DEANS LATEST STUPID STATEMENTS

I’m refering to that great political tactician Howard Dean’s latest appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room. Let’s cut to the ‘general’s’ oddball comments.

BLITZER: Where do you stand when it comes to a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq? How quickly would you like to see them out? And be specific.
DEAN: Well, I think the Democrats have been pretty clear about what they want. They want a transition, and now there’s going to be a vote on asking the president for a timetable. We need to be out of Iraq. We know we can’t leave immediately, but we need to be out, and we need to hear from the president something other than, “I started this, but we’re going to leave this to the next president.”

They’ve gotta test him for what he’s smoking because it’s gotta be great stuff. I wouldn’t want to play poker against this guy because I was watching this yesterday. He said that “Democrats have been pretty clear about what they want” with as straight a face as I’ve seen on the WPT circuit. It’s almost like he believed it.

Remember, folks, this is the Democratic Party talking war strategy here. They haven’t been united about fighting a war since FDR’s days. This is the Democratic Party that saw 6 Fever Swampers voting for the the withdrawal of military troops from Iraq by year’s end. It’s also the same Democratic Party whose House members voted overwhelmingly against:

In a 256-153 vote that mirrored the position taken by the Senate earlier, the GOP-led House approved a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the Iraq war part of the larger global fight against terrorism and says an “arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment” of troops is not in the national interest.

This is what passes for unity in the Democratic Party folks. It isn’t a pretty sight but it gets worse:

BLITZER: Do you think they should be out by the end of the year, like Congressman John Murtha, Senator Kerry, Senator Feingold? They say get them all out by the end of this year.
DEAN: Well, I haven’t heard anybody say that, Wolf. What I have heard is that people want a plan to transition out of Iraq. And what’s going to be voted on tomorrow in the Senate is a plan to re-deploy some of the troops in Iraq, some to Afghanistan, others to the region, bring some of the National Guard home, keep some in Iraq in order to train folks. But I haven’t heard anybody say they want everybody out by the end of the year.

That’s a bald-faced lie & ‘Gen. Dean’ knows it. For him to pretend to not have heard Jean Francois’ latest defeatist resolution is insulting. PERIOD.

Now in full retreat, Dean says this:

BLITZER: Well, Congressman Murtha has been pretty specific, Senator Kerry, they say that that should be the target, by the end of the year, to get them out. Re-deploy them. Those are the words, that’s the phrase that Congressman Murtha uses.
DEAN: Well, what I have heard from these folks, and I haven’t heard it described the way you just described it, what I’ve heard is that they want the National Guard and Reserve to be home, some 20,000 troops to be moved to other countries in the surrounding region so they can come back into Iraq as needed, and then leaving a force still that’s much smaller in Iraq training the police.

Look, the bottom line here is not what the specifics of the plan are.

The bottom line is the president doesn’t have a plan and the Democrats believe that we should be heading in another direction, which is what the American people believe.

Check out that line “Look, the bottom line here is not what the specifics of the plan are.” You damned right it’s about the specifics of the plan. What good is a plan if it doesn’t have specifics to it? Do you expect people to listen to that stuff like it’s got a shred of credibility? He thinks he’s got credibility but he doesn’t.

And it’ll show this November.

BLITZER: Frank Rich, the columnist for “The New York Times,” a strong critic of the Bush administration, wrote a very stinging column yesterday in “The New York Times,” in which he was very critical of the Democrats, because he fears that they are once again being outmaneuvered politically by Republicans, as they were, he says, on the eve of the 2004 elections.
And then he goes on to say this: “Those who are most enraged about the administration’s reckless misadventure, misadventures are incredulous that it repeatedly gets away with the same stunts. But, as long as the Democrats keep repeating their own mistakes, they will lose to the party whose mistakes are, if nothing else, packaged as one heck of a show. It’s better to have the courage of bad convictions than no courage or convictions at all.” Did you read that Frank Rich column yesterday?
DEAN: I don’t read columnists. They are willing to, they also sit in air-conditioned offices. The fact of the matter is that we are pushing a, for a plan to get out of Iraq. The president has no plan. He says he’s going to leave that to the next election. The president can’t balance the budget. We will. The president has cost millions of Americans their health care. We are going to move towards a health care system that works for everybody. The president has sent millions of jobs to other countries. We are going to create a new energy independence industry, and do more than talk about it. The Democrats are on the move with a positive agenda. And I think we are going to win.

Check out the laundry list of nonsense that Dean rattled off in that last paragraph.

• The president can’t balance the budget. We will.
• The president has sent millions of jobs to other countries. We are going to create a new energy independence industry, and do more than talk about it.
• The Democrats are on the move with a positive agenda.

Yeah right!!! The budget deficit forecast is shrinking almost quarterly, down from $521 billion for 04 to where it’s expected to come in under $300 billion this October.

As for a new “energy independence industry”, all that is is talk. They’ve been obstructionists on every major piece of energy legislation that’s come down the pike.

Finally, if a one page flyer that doesn’t mention how they’d fight the GWOT is his idea of a positive agenda, then we’ll see the American people rejecting that ‘positive agenda’ this November.

There’s more stupidity advocated in that transcript but I can only take so much. Read the entire transcript at your own risk.