From Townhall, this amusing bit from Howard Dean’s DNC Magic Misery Tour:
After asking the students to donate money to the Democratic National Committee, [DNC Chair Howard] Dean said “one of the biggest problems in this culture of corruption that the Republicans brought to Washington, is they sold our government to the highest bidder.
“If we want it back, we’ll have to buy it back,” Dean said.
He also said the president was partly responsible for a recent Supreme Court decision involving eminent domain.
“The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is ‘okay’ to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is,” Dean said, not mentioning that until he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court this week, Bush had not appointed anyone to the high court.
Dean’s reference to the “right-wing” court was also erroneous. The four justices who dissented in the Kelo vs. New London case included the three most conservative members of the court—Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the fourth dissenter.
Which means that it was, in fact, the Court’s more liberal members, Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer—coupled with “conservative” Justice Anthony Kennedy—who evidently believe its okay to take and auction off some hardworking steel worker’s blue collar homestead to make way for a big corporate industrial park, the kickback being an increase in tax revenues the local nannystate municipality can put to use funding programs meant to provide that newly homeless steel worker with the “educational skills” he needs to one day own a home of his very own.
GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE WHO CARE!
(h/t John Cole)
Wow, that’s such a flagrant, up-is-down error that it’s embarrassing.
You’d be surprised how many people think Kelo was a “conservative” decision (especially people calling in to talk radio shows immediately after the decision); it’s becoming a sort of nebulous, ill-informed urban legend.
It’s funny that many (on both ends of the political spectrum) have reached the point of believing that anything they disagree with must have originated from the “other side.”
Are you really sure the Republicans didn’t invent Howard Dean. Every time he speaks, I begin to wonder if he didn’t really emerge from some secret, underground Haliburton lab…
Most liberal kids in America are really stupid. It amazes me how fast one can shut them up with some simple facts, like EVERY CONSERVATIVE voted against Kelo, and EVERY LIBERAL voted for it.
BWAHAhahahahahahahahaha!
Fools! Just look at these bulging temples! And you DARE to challenge me? Why, I need special coolers just to manage the heat output from my MASSIVE BRAIN!
Jelly belly?….
Cool. Next thing you know Dean will have a melt-down over how Bush and the right-wingers are sucking the brains out of unborn babies.
A day after the Kelo decision was delivered, Freestar Media LLC submitted a proposal in the town of Weare, New Hampshire where majority opinion writer, Justice Souter, owns a farm house. They requested that the town board condemn the land and give it to them, as private developers, who promise to construct the Lost Liberty Hotel in its place. Their tax revenue would no doubt be higher than the reported $2,500 that Justice Souter paid in property taxes last year. It would create employment and attract tourism. The town has a website, and an economic development committee, which has identified its two main goals: 1) Encourage the formation of new businesses, and 2) Promote tourism. However, contrary to its stated goals and the legally sanctioned purpose of economic development, the town’s board turned down the proposal.
So much for poetic justice. Justice Souter’s influence in his community shielded him from his own ruling. No other rational justification can be found.
Thankfully, the legislative branch is now busy at work attempting to shield private property rights from the Supreme Court ruling. It seems that the two may have switched roles, with the House defending the Constitution, and the Supreme Court writing new laws.
I thought I saw Alice the other day! Or maybe it was Justice Souter –skipping in Wonderland, immune to and above the laws he passes.
Later in the same rant, “I am sick of being divided!” Dean shouted over the applause. So obviously his earlier comments cannot be atributed to Howie, but to one of his other personalities; probably Jada, the West Indies hoochie dancer. Schizophrenia rocks in Vermont!
By “bless,” you mean “damn,” right? Or does “bless” mean something more exotic, like “shove a live grenade up their asses?”
Man, am I confused!
Here I was thinking that SCOTUS sucked big time for “selecting” W in ‘00. Then Pelosi calls the Kelo decision something along the lines of “the word of God.”
Won’t somebody help me?
“Mumblegerg! Harg harg harg graaa! Flabungow Bush warrgh!”
–Howard Dean, DNC Chair
“I think, therefore I’m liberal.”
–Some shirt I saw somewhere
That should be on a t-shirt.
Jeff, I love ya man, but there is no way that the Republicans have the talent to invent someone as fundamentally stupid as Howard Dean.
I dunno, Robin. Maybe if they scraped up some stray bits of DNA left in a dumpster behind a Chick-fil-A in Myrtle Beach…
“Man, am I confused!
Here I was thinking that SCOTUS sucked big time for “selecting†W in ‘00. Then Pelosi calls the Kelo decision something along the lines of “the word of God.â€Â
Won’t somebody help me? “
Wait, I have something… GOD DID APPOINT W. TO THE PRESIDENCY. Wahahahahahahahaha
Sorry, I guess I need to stop sniffing paint thinner… its affecting my humor.
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