Former Vermont governor and DNC chairman Howard Dean has a unique take on the Wisconsin recall attempt that saw Gov. Scott Walker, Republican, become the first governor in US history to survive a recall attempt. Not only did Walker survive, so did Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and all but one of the recalled Republican state senators. Big Labor poured millions of dollars, and the Democrats deployed former President Bill Clinton, to attempt to defeat all of the Republicans on the recall ballot, and portrayed Walker as a dictator bent on ramming his agenda through the state legislature. Walker won easily over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat.
During an interview at Netroots Nation over the weekend, Gov. Dean found a shining silver lining in the Wisconsin storm.
GOV. HOWARD DEAN: First of all, we look at Wisconsin as a win, we, which is not reported in the mainstream media. We picked up a Senate seat which denies Scott Walker a majority in the senate. So we put the brakes on him, uh, at least until the next election season.
The Democrats’ lone recall victory means less than it might appear, because the Wisconsin senate is not in session won’t even return to session until January 2013. By then, the Republicans stand a strong change of regaining their majority thanks to redistricting. The Republicans have a pair of pick-up opportunities; the Democrats have none. Winning one of the two would give the Republicans their majority back before the senate comes back into session. The recall will have gained the Democrats absolutely nothing if this happens.
Later in the interview, Dean opined on the week that was for the Democrats:
DEAN: I’m not one of those who thought last week was a bad week for the Democrats, I actually thought it was a good week for the Democrats.
Last week opened with the Wisconsin recall, three California cities passing government union reforms or paving the way for such reforms, progressed through awful national jobs numbers and, everyone thought, ended with President Obama’s “the private sector is doing fine” gaffe. On Saturday, Obama’s commerce secretary was accused of a felony.
It that is not a bad week for the Democrats, what is?
Yeeeeeeeeeee! “President” Dean talks like a “winner”! May the Dems win more Deanesque wins.
well, no one actually got arrested, or exposed with their pants down, no one got caught with a cooler of money in their trunk, and Pelosi and Biden actually shut their mouths for most of the week – pop the champagne
I hope and pray that the Democrats have many more weeks as good as that was: particularly, the first week in November.
Well if that was a Demoncratic win for Dean then he’s going to crazy come November. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!
“Wisconsin Was a Win for the Democrats!”
“Freedom is Slavery”
“War is Peace”
“Ignorance is Strength”
Dr. Dean: Your office at the Ministry of Truth is calling.
Van Jones, obama, Maxime Waters, Barney Franks, even Nancy Pelosi….I can understand how and why they developed into the criminals they are today.
Howard Dean is beyond understanding.
Denial. Howie is simply in denial.
I want to try whatever he’s smoking or drinking. And make the latter a double over ice.
Sounds like Good Stuff.
– is not in session.
Dean is just demonstrating that he is qualified to work at MSNBC.
OR CBS
CBS President Says at Obama Fundraiser ‘Partisanship Is Very Much a Part of Journalism Now’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/07/cbs-president-says-obama-fundraiser-partisanship-very-much-part-journ#ixzz1xWAJXOAN
And then CBS claimed Moonves’ partisanship remarks … don’t apply to CBS.
Forensic Psychiatrist Explains the Madness of (Modern) Liberalism t(dot)co/zoDKXZt
“…The degree of modern liberalism’s irrationality far exceeds any misunderstanding that can be attributed to faulty fact gathering or logical error. Indeed, under careful scrutiny, liberalism’s distortions of the normal ability to reason can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The modern liberal mind, its distorted perceptions and its destructive agenda are the product of disturbed personalities…”
Howie has been riding in the choomwagon
I had wondered where Baghdad Bob had gotten off to…
Dean enjoyed that? So did I! Let’s do it again! Recalls for all!
The Dem may have won in the Racine district, but from what I read, there was a lot of hanky-panky going on in that election, such as someone voting three times. Time to purge those rolls as in Florida.
BTW I hope these (dumb) Dems keep proclaiming that Wisconsin was a win for them. The longer they do so, the more the public might realize that the Dems are demented, having just a tenuous grasp on reality.
“If that is not a bad week for the Democrats, what is?”
Well how about having some pointed questions to Barry at a news conference asking him to explain his membership in the New Party?
How about some indictments at DOJ over Fast and Furious? How about the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Leakgate?
How about an expose’ on the money laundering going on through funding of green energy companies?
How about other states following the FL effort to clean up voter registration?
How about more cities, counties and states scaling back public employee benefits to more closely match those in the private sector?
I’m just getting warmed up.