HOWARD THE COWARD STRIKES AGAIN

Howard Dean made the Mike radar today on a couple of points. On Fox and Friends yesterday, he said a couple of whoppers: When E.D. asked if he would cut the $87 billion requested for Iraq, he said this:

"There's a ready source for that. The president gave three trillion dolars of our tax money away to people like Ken Lay."

Just how did Ken Lay get money from George Bush and where did the “three trillion dollars” number come from? Three trillion in two years? The funny thing is nobody will question him on this outrageous number. It’s like someone saying, “Howard Dean ovcrcharged his patients $250 million while he was a doctor” or “The population of Vermont increased by 75 million people while he was Governor”.

Whatever. What is does say is that Howard is either completely unconcerned by facts and the truth or he is just plain stupid. I report, you decide.

In that same interview, he said this:

"I do intend to stand up for what I believe in , which is a balanced budget and fiscal conservatism and then a social progressive program like health insurance for every American."

Tim Graham at National Review Online was confused by the seeming “fiscally conservative socialism” aspect of the quote. I’m not quite that esoteric, what got me was the “I do intend to stand up for what I believe in…” part. He INTENDS to stand up for what he believes in? Doesn’t that mean he is currently NOT standing up for those beliefs? If so, that explains a lot of the babble currently spewing forth from his mouth. It also doesn’t say a lot for the man, either.

Over at the Boston Globe, we have the story of Howard Dean’s sealed gubernatorial papers. He sealed some of his papers for ten years and the same group, Judicial Watch, who hounded Clinton and Dick Cheney have filed suit trying to get the seal lifted. Now, the sealing is hardly unprecedented and I feel there may be good reasons for them to be sealed, but it kind of funny coming from the man who portrays himself as a straight-shooter and a political outsider. It’s even funnier when you hearken back to what he told Vermont Public Radio about the sealing:

"Well, there are future political considerations. We didn't want anything embarrassing appearing in the papers at a critical time in any future endeavor."

Yeah, he’s an honest, straight-shooter allright. Slimey as a Clinton or a Kennedy, is more like it.