Another reason to love Howard Dean

...his ever-reliably accurate utter horseshit detector proves correct again:



HoDee on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Sunday, August 1, 2004:



"I am concerned that every time something happens that's not good for President Bush he plays this trump card, which is terrorism. His whole campaign is based on the notion that "I can keep you safe, therefore at times of difficulty for America stick with me," and then out comes Tom Ridge.



It's just impossible to know how much of this is real and how much of this is politics, and I suspect there's some of both in it..."



Once again, the Good Doctor's pointing out of the obvious was met with the expected outcries of shocked....shocked.....SHOCKED!!!!! (And let's not forget the ever-popular APPALLED!!!) that anyone could POSSIBLY INSINUATE that the Bush Administration might use FEAR to draw attention away from the successful Democratic convention and it's energetic, focused, no-more-Mr.-Nice-Guy Presidential slate:



The Arizona Republic waved smelling salts in front of its own nose with a white lace handkerchief:



"Everything considered, which is more important?



For President Bush to act with a sense of urgency against terrorism, thus having to face the paranoid political delusions of Howard Dean?"



Joementum Lieberman continued in his chosen role as watercarrier for Team Bush:



"Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), speaking on the same program, said no one 'in their right mind would think the President or the secretary of homeland security would raise an alert level and scare people for political reasons. That's outrageous.'"



The Rocky Mountain News called Dean's remarks "contemptible."



Who's sneering now, morons?



This is without a doubt the most cynical Administration of my lifetime. Millions of Americans live and work in New York City. There's enough about living in the biggest target in the U.S. to instill fear even without terrorist warnings. Marc Maron was dead-on right yesterday on Morning Sedition that this administration is like the kind of abusive spouse that manipulates you into being so afraid of the outside world that you'll embrace the abuser, because even though he beats you, at least you know what you've got.



Is this what we want to be? Frightened little abused enablers of a batterer?