Barney Frank Rips Howard Dean

Posted by Moonage on 17 May 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for this interesting tidbit:

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Party, said yesterday that the US House majority leader, Tom DeLay, ”ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence," referring to allegations of unethical conduct against the Republican leader…..

Dean’s remark, in a speech to Massachusetts Democrats at their party convention, drew an immediate rebuke from US Representative Barney Frank, the Newton Democrat and one of DeLay’s harshest critics. ”That’s just wrong," Frank said in an interview on the convention floor. ”I think Howard Dean was out of line talking about DeLay. The man has not been indicted. I don’t like him, I disagree with some of what he does, but I don’t think you, in a political speech, talk about a man as a criminal or his jail sentence."

I did a piece on Howard Dean shortly after he took over the DNC.  I came to this conclusion then:

My prognostication? The Democrats, under Dean’s very public leadership, will take one more beating in 2006 and Dean will be gone with a Clinton successor taking his, and the party leadership’s place.

The only thing I might have gotten wrong is the timing.  They may not be willing to wait until 2006.

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