THE DOCTOR IS IN THE HOUSE!!!

[Walt Starr]

And he is delivering the cure! He's performing a spine transplant into the Democratic Party!

Dean: New York GOP chairman must apologize or resign

By MARC HUMBERT
AP Political Writer

February 16, 2005, 2:39 PM EST

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Howard Dean, just four days into his job as Democratic National chairman, called Wednesday for New York's state Republican chairman to apologize or resign over remarks linking Democrats to a civil rights lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists.

Calling Stephen Minarik's comments "offensive," the former Vermont governor said, "The American people deserve better than this type of political character assassination."

There was no immediate comment from Minarik.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--minarik-democrats0216feb16,0,1932877.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[Padraig18]

1. Way to go, Howard!

:yourock:

[flygal]

2. WHHOOAAA Dok-TAH!

give em hell dean!!!

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. are you listening, brit hume?

no more rolling over for your bs either!

www.cafepress.com/showtheworld

[MissB]

4. Nothing like meeting them head-on

and carrying a baseball bat. Way to go, Howard.

[wryter2000]

5. Give 'em hell, Howard

I love that man.

:loveya: Howard Dean

[fooj]

6. Wonder how "delighted" Rove is now? Go Howard!

He won't take their bullshit! That's a given...

[Cocoa]

7. "this is not settled"

go Dean! :toast:

[regionalprogressive]

8. And what happens if they guy doesnt apologize or resign?

[bunkerbuster1]

10. yeah, and why is Hillary's consultant saying this:

...rather than Hillary herself?

"if you make that mistake again, you best be prepared to make it to my face, because we love this country much too much to allow you to ever question our patriotism."

I like the tougher talk. I'm glad Dean is stirring the pot. But dammit, I want Hillary talking some smack, too.

[Walt Starr]

11. Then the GOP head becomes the issue

and every last Democrat can run against the asshole.

[regionalprogressive]

14. Dont they already run against him?

[Walt Starr]

19. Nope

The head of the GOP becomes the issue in the next election and every local election becomes a statewide election. He gives a unifying theme for the party throughout the state.

[Roland99]

9. "There was no immediate comment from Minarik."...Of course not!

He has to cull together his aides and PR people to come back with something to cover his ass.

[Freebird12004]

12. Yea Howard

:yourock:

[madfloridian]

13. He also issued a statement on "Enron style accounting"....

www.democrats.org

Look under press releases.

[Beacho]

15. That's right you little punk ass bullies

Let's see how well you pricks do when someone fights back


"Now they will know why they fear the night"
(That evil dude played by James Earl Jones in Conan)

[quiet.american]

16. Wolfson got Howard's back, too!

"Don't accuse the 5.5 million Democrats in this state of treason if you hope to win our votes," said Howard Wolfson, a Democratic consultant and top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "And, if you make that mistake again, you best be prepared to make it to my face, because we love this country much too much to allow you to ever question our patriotism."

HOT DAMN!

[DefenseLawyer]

17. A slightly different take

I am glad to see Howard Dean standing tall, but the prosecution of Lynne Stewart was a John Ashcroft led travesty and ought to outrage anyone that believes in the right to counsel and the attorney client privilege. On the one hand you can say Dean was standing up, to me it is Dean backing down by accepting the government's position that this woman was a "terrorist". I have no problem being linked to Lynne Stewart, she was doing her job. Link me to her instead of John Ashcroft any day.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505A.shtml

[quiet.american]

18. A slightly different take on your point --

-- Which I think is a good one. It seems more to me Dean and Wolfson are going straight for the jugular by calling Minarik on his attempt to exploit the conviction of Lynne Stewart for his own agenda, rather than having their point obscured and feeding him more material by debating the legitimacy of Stewart's conviction. I tend to agree she was set up by Singin' John.

[DefenseLawyer]

20. No, I don't disagree that it is a good thing for him to call them out

when they misrepresent the facts and I definitely like to see him showing some backbone. But I hate to see Dems run away from something as serious as this, and seriously wrong, in my opinion, simply because the Republicans yell "Terror!"