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May 21, 2014 08:26 AM UTC

Screamin’ Howard Dean and Andrew Romanoff

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  • by: Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Romanoff is running for Congress in the competitive 6th Congressional District (D+1) against an incumbent Republican, Mike Coffman.  Andrew’s internal polling apparently indicated that he was having trouble motivating his base, who are largely sitting out the mid-term elections.  So what does an attention-deprived desperate Dem would-be-Congressman do?  Call in an off-the-wall national figure and try to become relevant.

Reverend Al Sharpton must have been busy sowing seeds of racial harmony and Ed Schultz must have been busy soothing labor management relations elsewhere so Howard “the  scream” Dean was summoned.  It just so happens that Dr. Dean and Romanoff both think Obamacare did not go far enough and that we really need a single payer system, kind of like VA quality medicine for all, but I digress.

A great time was had by all at the Romanoff fundraiser last week.  There was a great band, Barry and the Blue Haired Bundlers, and they played their hit song “Looking for Contracts (in all the wrong places)” from their “Crony Capitalism” album.  They even had somebody that looked just like Pat Stryker doing backup vocals.  California sushi and wine were served, H/T to Tom Steyer, but the highlight had to be the guest speaker himself.

Howard Dean is not known as “the scream” for nothing.  He really knows how to create hatred, but apparently also suffers from ADD.  Howard told the crowd that Republicans “are not American” and that they “should stay away from our Country”.  Apparently Romanoff shares that view because he has done nothing to distance himself from Dr. Dean’s comments.  In fact, Romanoff referred to Dean as “a true American patriot”.

Then, with a straight face Dean continued “We have had enough of the politics of anger, we have had enough of the politics of hate, we have had enough of the politics of division”. 

http://coloradostatesman.com/content/994862-former-prez-candidate-dean-stumps-romanoff 

And so it goes, the Dems are tired of the politics of anger, hate and division.  If you don’t agree with them, you are not American and should leave the country.

After the great fundraiser, Romanoff’s base is all charged up, full of hatred for their fellow Americans.

Mission accomplished.

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23 thoughts on “Screamin’ Howard Dean and Andrew Romanoff

  1. Great work, Andrew! And by that I don't mean Romanoff.

    Howard Dean says Republicans aren't Americans? I guess that means Pols owes Coffman an apology.

  2. It's sad that you claim that Romanoff didn't back away from Dean's comments and then refer to an article that specifically notes Romanoff backing away from Dean's comments at that same event, just after he took over the mike from Dean.

    1. PR, I reread the article.  Romanoff only dialed the comments back as to Coffman.

      He did not distance himself from Dean's statement that Republicans are not American and should stay away from our Country.

      1. Ha! Mere semantics.  Don't act shallow, it is not an attractive characteristic.  Oh, I do want my real conservatives back.  I miss them. 

        1. Miss Jane.  

          If I disagree with Howard Dean, I am not an American.

          If I don't respond as you expect, I am not a real conservative.

          It seems that Dems are not very accepting of people that are different than they are.

        2. It's simple, Miss Jane- 

          Calling the President a Kenyan Socialist Muslim?  That's just politics and Freedom of Speech. 

          Calling out the GOP for doing everything in their power to turn our country into an oligarchy and a twisted fantasy of the 1950's? "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!! THOSE DEMS ARE BEING MEAN!!!"

          The emotional flexibility it must take to be ammosexual gun-waving badasses and screaming, quivering tear-streaked victims at the same time is amazing.  

          I thought we Libs were supposed to be the big sissies? 

  3. It's not a surprise that Romanoff called on Dean to head up a campaign event. After all, Dean's 50 state strategy and the successful election that catapaulted Romanoff to the Speakership happened in the same year, and it was in part Dean's 50 state strategy that put Romanoff in the House leadership seat. Colorado was one of Democracy For America's biggest successes; Colorado Democrats managed to not only staff all 64 county parties, but IIRC managed to place at least one precinct captain in every single precinct throughout the state.

    Say what you will about Dean's "enthusiasm" – and I disagree with him as much as Romanoff does about Tea Partier's American-ness – but DFA's organizing strategy was responsible for hauling Democrats back out of the post-1994 defeatist, right-of-center doldrums.

    And it should be noted that Vermont continued after Dr. Dean left the governor's office and is now awaiting the 2017 ACA moritorium on health insurance changes before they implement their already-approved single payer health insurance system.

    1. What PR said.

      And I saw the video of the context of Dean's remarks – the context was that Republicans were trying to suppress the vote. "This is a Republican Party that has decided they like power so much that they think it's OK to win by taking away your right to vote.  They are not American", said Howard Dean, "They'd be more comfortable in the Ukraine, or Russia, but stay away from our country. The US is based on the right to vote! " said Howard Dean.

      Why do you suppose Dean's remarks were taken out of the context of voter suppression?

      And he's right – the Republicans who have made it their mission to suppress the vote are acting Un-American, and might really be more comfortable in a dictatorship somewhere.

      You can see the video and judge the context for yourself, without the Breitbart spin:

       

       

       

      1. I would say that Dr. Dean's wording is at best unfortunate here. "They are not American" is not something I agree with. "That is not American" perhaps. "That is not the American ideal" definitely. Using "they" personalizes it – makes it an exclusionary attack. And it's something that Romanoff corrected when he got to the mic, leaving poor AC with only his fantasies to tilt against.

        1. Agree. And it won't be the first time Dean has shown less than the best judgement in how he presents himself. He never lived down the scream. But I still find it amusing how selective our righties are in what kind of language upsets them. Not a peep when their pols call Obama un-American or worse. Not using that as an excuse, just an observation. Unfortunately, elites trying to make it as hard as possible for ''those" people to vote really is as American as apple pie.

          1. Who can forget Colorado Republican Gubernatorial candidate Dan 'Secret Agent Man/Grafter' Maes: 

            Bikes are "converting Denver into a United Nations community."

            "This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,"

             

            1. Or current Colorado Republican Gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo's #1 fanboy Ted "Batshit/Washed Up Geriatric Rocker" Nugent:

              1. Nugent: “Worthless Bitch” Hillary Clinton Should Ride My Machine Gun Into The Sunset.” During a 2007 concert infamous for Nugent’s claim that “piece of shit” then-Senator Barack Obama should “suck on [his] machine gun,” Nugent also called Hillary Clinton a “worthless bitch,” told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to “suck on [his] machine gun,” and called Sen. Dianne Feinstein a “worthless whore”  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=757_1187963465 

              2. Nugent On Then-First Lady Clinton: “You Probably Can’t Use The Term ‘Toxic C#^t’ In Your Magazine, But That’s What She Is.” From a July 7, 1994 interview with Denver, Colorado publication Westword: About Hillary Clinton: “…Her very existence insults the spirit of individualism in this country. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” [Westword7/27/94]

  4. PR, The Vermont plan is still up in the air.  The legislature has not come up with a plan addressing how they are going to pay for it, which is a rather significant piece of the puzzle.  It is estimated that they will need to come up with over $2 billion in new taxes to pull it off.  Until there is funding in place, I am skeptical that it ever takes place.

    http://vtdigger.org/2014/05/20/vbsr-launches-health-care-financing-calculator/

    1. They can't implement a funding source until they're allowed to implement the plan. The ACA prohibits them from following through on the legislation they've already passed. And as the proposed solution is an 11% tax on employers – less than what many insurance plans cost today – I don't think it will be a hard sell to Vermont businesses.

      1. PR, Here is that status of the "funding plan" as reported by a Vermont newspaper a couple weeks ago:

        There was a lot of interest to see how the governor would propose raising roughly two billion dollars in new revenue that would replace the current private insurance premium system.

         

        "If we are moving forward on Green Mountain Care, the governor will have to put a financing plan on the table." House Health Care Chairman Michael Fisher

         

        But midway through the session, the governor said building a financing plan had become very complicated and he said he would delay unveiling his plan until the start of the 2015 session.

        House Health Care chairman Michael Fisher expects the financing plan will be the top health care priority of the next session.

        “If we’re moving forward on Green Mountain Care, the governor will have to put a financing plan on the table,” said Fisher. “And the Legislature will have to take its time to really understand the implications of that financing plan not only on the business community and on Vermonters but also on how people access the care that they need.”

        House Minority leader Don Turner noted that under a law passed in 2011, the governor was required to outline funding options in 2013. And Turner was outraged that Shumlin was allowed to delay this important decision.

        http://digital.vpr.net/post/unfinished-business-will-frame-agenda-2015-session

        The two billion dollars required to be raised compares to a total state budget of approximately five billion dollars.

        1. Aside from the fact that most of that "two billion dollars in new revenue" would replace a similar amount being spent by state businesses to provide insurance to their employees, I see nothing here to either dispute or worth pursuing.

          The Senate offered their Republican minority colleagues a penalty provision if the governor didn't deliver by Jan. 2015, and the governor indicated that his advisory board (created by that same bill) would be ready to deliver their proposal by then. Republicans wanted a fall deadline to make it an election issue and rejected the January (next time the Vermont legislature meets) deadline.

          Meh.

  5. It looks like Dean took inspiration from Coffman's remarks about Obama.  I'm sure you know about those remarks since some of them are included in the article you cite, where Romanoff's response is included. 

    ~~I’m not asking you to demonize my opponent or question his character or disparage his patriotism,” Romanoff said. “Mike Coffman loves this country. So do I. So do you. Let’s not make that an issue in this race. What I’m asking you to do instead is help spell out the differences, in all the ways we’ve shared here today — on the economy, on education, on health care, on the environment, on the fate of the planet itself, the congressman and I disagree. And it ought to be an honest debate.” 

     

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