Howard Dean plays Hide the Salami

[Timexwatch]

As seen on Hardball tonight:

Here

Hehehe. Dean realizes it about two seconds after he says it and Matthews didn't flinch.

Edit:

Thanks for the correction. It was a minor faux pas on my part.

[ajbera]

Actually, this is the link you want:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9601984/

[jdd2007]

HD on Roberts- ''I opposed him because I thought he would protect the most vulnerable Americans.'''

transcription error or startling about face from everyone's favorite Vermontian?

[Dinner]

It was a blunder but it didn't have to be; it could have just been a bad choice. The problem is this administration can't seem to bother with the details, they didn't use enough troops to control the country, their cronyism ate up the few reconstruction funds they allocated for Iraq, they ignored the insurgency and wouldn't negotiate with them until the whole thing was out of control and couldn't be stopped. We're now $400 billion in the hole, more the 2k dead and 10k maimed or wounded, must of our allies no longer trust us, tens to hundreds of thousands of new terrorists have been trained & experienced, and most of the Arab world hates the west more then ever.

I'd say calling it a blunder is pretty fair.

[MrFun]

Re: Howard Dean plays Hide the Salami

Originally posted by Timexwatch

Hehehe. Dean realizes it about two seconds after he says it and Matthews didn't flinch.

I'm sure that you found the hundreds of examples of Bush making even more stupid Freudian slips humorous as well.

[Timexwatch]

Sure he makes plenty, but none nearly as sexual as this one.

[MrFun]

Um, if Howard Dean turns you on . . . . . .

[Timexwatch]

He's more up your alley

[Theben]

Good thing there's a humorous gaff made by a democrat in the transcript so repugs can focus on that and not the content of his statements!

[Patroklos]

Which on the wholr were not that bad, but he was definetly following talking points to the tee.

His Roberts critisisms were retarded.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Patroklos

His Roberts critisisms were retarded.

Wow, what an impressive counter-argument.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MrFun
Wow, what an impressive counter-argument.

Well given that the Democrats really had no coherent ideaological reason for voting against Roberts that maybe the best you could get until someone can provide one.

[Dinner]

Feinsteinn gave an excellent reason. She continually asked him broad conceptual questions about his judicial philosophy that had nothing to do with "how would you dicide this sort of case" and Roberts refused to anwser them. In her opinion Roberts refused to anwser fair questions which made her unable to know what sort of judge he was so she withheld her consent. That makes perfect sense since the purpose of the hearings is for Senators to vet a nominee, but, that can't happen if the guy won't anwser any questions.

[DinoDoc]

Do you seriously think Leahy and Kohl are that much more willing to roll the dice in the dark than Feinstein is?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Do you seriously think Leahy and Kohl are that much more willing to roll the dice in the dark than Feinstein is?

I believe Leahy and Kohl are both part of the centrist 14 (though I could be wrong) which means they promised to support Bush's nominees unless there was something majorly wrong with them. Basicly they had to vote yes or else they'd have broken the centrist 14. That was a good call because supposedly the centrist 14 was the main reason Bush didn't send up a right wing ideologue for his second nominee.

With the seven Republicans of the centrist 14 the dems have 51 votes in the Senate to block a non-mainstream candidate and prevent Frist from using the nuclear option. That inssures any screaming reactionary nominee would have been shot down but it would have been a bang up fight which would have prevented anything else from moving through Congress until it was finished. Bush is starting to think about his legency now and he wants to get through several key parts of his agenda. If it doesn't happen in the next year then it isn't likely to happen at all so the last thing Bush wants is to lose this time to a partisan mud fight over nominees who likely wouldn't make it through anyway.

Bush stiffed the religious right so he could try to get the rest of his adgenda done this year.