all the press is ganging up on the voice of progressives, Dr. Dean. Poor Lieberman, Bad Dean. Dean is a progressive, Dean bad. Dean made Lieberman angry. Dean made white house angry. Dean bad.
Dean made Mary Landrieu angry. Bad Dean.
Funny how that works. Morning Jerk, Mika Mouse, unnamed sources, Savannah never left the party.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/16/white-house-irritated-with-howard-dean-not-joe-lieberman/(video at the link)
Last night there was a big party for the press at the White House, and this morning Mika Brzezinski and Savannah Guthrie report back on what was being said by White House officials about Howard Dean and Joe Lieberman:
Mika Brzezinski I won’t name names, but I heard it from several people in the Administration: Howard Dean, very not pleased, with Dr. Dean speaking out about health care reform and this plan.
Savannah Guthrie: Yeah, very irritated. Yes, isn’t it fascinating they don’t seem to be too angry at Lieberman, they’re reserving their fervor for Howard Dean, but actually, one senior official who I talked to this morning paid the highest insult which was to call him irrelevant to the entire health care debate. You know he kind of had his moment in the sun in the last week when this Medicare expansion looked like it was going to be the thing that broke the logjam between the progressives in the party and the moderates, but, of course, because of Lieberman, the Medicare expansion is gone, and now Dean is having what one official called “a tantrum.”
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Oh, Look who's pulling our strings again. Something stinks, and it starts with Me and ends with dia. The corporatists centrists are so afraid of a little grass roots action that they can't see straight. .
And Dr. Dean still speaks for me. Reconciliation. Here's a little holiday reconciliation for you, Mr. Lieberman, topped off with a little librul populism. Boo.