It's about @(*#&@(*ing time we have something to celebrate!
I picked up the advanced copy of the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer and there's a Dean article on the front page.
The rebels have stormed the citadel, and now they’re taking over.
The ascension this weekend of Howard Dean to the Democratic chairmanship – an event virtually unimaginable last year, when he was racking up 17 losses in 19 presidential primaries - signifies a historic power shift within the party, from the old-boy network of the Washington establishment to the grassroots soldiers who are fed up with defeat.
Over the last 150 years, by tradition, the Democratic leader has been an insider with powerful pals – typically a crony of the president or protégé of a key senator or a money guy with long-standing ties to the fat cat donors. And the election of that leader, by the voting members of the Democratic National Committee, ahs typically been “a rigged deal,” as party strategist James Carville puts it.
Dean breaks the mold. Never before has the leader of a grassroots citizen army captured this job. The insurgent presidential candidate, who once dismissed party insiders as “the Washington politics-as-usual club,” and who once referred to members of Congress as “cockroaches” has been given a mandate to shake things up – courtesy of the party’s 447 voting members, who hail from all 50 states and who no longer intend to take their cues from the old guard.
Now, for some Dean quotes:
I want a party that stands unashamedly for equal rights for all Americans.
I want a party that stands unashamedly for health care for every single American.
I want a party that stands unashamedly for balanced budgets and taking care of poor kids and voting together.
And another:
I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.
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