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3.21.2008

 

Dean's depo

Former Gov. Howard Dean, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appears to be in some deep do-do with the gay-lesbian community if the outtakes from a deposition of Dean that appeared today in The Sleuth, a prominent Washington Post blog.

Dean and the DNC are being sued by Donald Hitchcock, who was the DNC's gay/lesbian outreach director until he was fired in 2006 with Dean's approval. Hitchcock claims he was shown the door because he gay and because his partner had griped publicly that the DNC hadn't done enough to oppose anti-gay ballot initiatives around the country. BTW, it appears many in the DC gay/lesbian community take issue with Hitchcock's criticism of the DNC.

In any case, a couple of weeks back Dean was deposed in connection with the case. It wasn't a pleasant experience for our sometimes short-tempered former guv.

To check out the full report in The Sleuth, click HERE, but to give you a sample of what I'm talking about, here's some back-and-forth between Dean and Hitchcock's attorney, Lynne Bernabei, after Bernabei needled Dean about why he didn't hold a public ceremony after signing Vermont's civil union bill into law in 2000.

Dean: "You don't get to put words in my mouth If you want the truth and whole truth and nothing but the truth...You have to let me answer your question."
Bernabei: "You can say anything you want. You are a politician, Mr. Dean."
Dean: "You are not behaving in a manner which is professionally competent or qualifying. You are an embarrassment to this profession, counselor."
Bernabei: "Well, it is not your profession. Thank you."
Dean: "It is my daughter's profession. I am going to show her this tape so she never behaves like this."

Yeaaaaah!

-- Sam Hemingway

Comments:
Just little Howie being little Howie.
 
Snippet of Dean Deposition

www.youtube.com/openprocess
 
Does anyone see the humor here (as tragic as it is).

This is the Party that says it protects the rights of the downtrodden but now Howie is being sued for the wrongful firing his gay outreach director...something about prejudice.


This is the Party that has mismanaged Social Security and now wants to extend that nightmare into running our health care programs for us.

This is the Party that can't run its own primary process but wants to now run the entire government


This is the Party that doesn't realize the Speaker of the House is not the Secretary of State. A couple of my favorite quotes from Queen Pelosi are " and we all know the road to peace in the Middle East runs through Syria" and yesterday after managing a boondoogle junket to India tells the Dalai Lama "Perhaps it was our karma, perhaps it was our fate … it was our karma because we are here to help the people of Tibet." She can't help the poor people of the US but wants to help Tibet...and what happened to the commitment to end unnecessary government spending? Aw shucks just raise taxes....

This is the Party that JW acknowledges can't successfully get those evil Bush staffers to comply with Leahy's supeonas but wants to be given the added responsibility to deal with Iran, Bin Laden and the jihadists, guys that really don;t like us...sure that will go well! Anyone want to guess if Bin Laden will honor a Leahy supeona?

This is the Party that was going to bring credibility to Congress and immediately delivers the worst approval ratings in recent memory.


Cripes!

Captain America
 
And this is the party that will get John McCain elected as our next president.
 
How true.... from CNS the Dems are lining up at the door....so much for Party loyalists.

Captain America


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Poll: Divisive Dem Contest Could Boost McCain
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
March 21, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - The lengthy Democratic primary contest bodes well for Republican chances of holding the White House, a new poll suggests.

As Democratic Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York slug it out for the nomination, many of their supporters -- at least in Pennsylvania, site of the next major primary -- aren't committed to the party's ticket in November, according to a Franklin & Marshall College Poll.

Among Obama supporters, 20 percent said they would vote for Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee, if Clinton beats their candidate for the nomination. Among Clinton supporters, 19 percent said they would support McCain in November if Obama is the Democratic nominee.
 
bubba said...

"And this is the party that will get John McCain elected as our next president."

You'd better hope so, schmuck, 'cause they're the only one who can.
 
Ahhh JW nevr underestimate the Dems ability to screw up a wet dream
 
Obama is handing the GOP a free ticket to the White House with these revelations of his dealings and relationships.
The only hope for the Dems is that the super delegates get behind Clinton and run a real campaign with a real candidate.
 
Instead of playing "Where's Waldo" maybe HoHo and Tony P can play a game of "Where's the Milk Money"

Want to help a farmer .......warn him or her not to send their milk to Tony's creamery.
 
Anonymous said...

"Obama is handing the GOP a free ticket to the White House with these revelations of his dealings and relationships."

Ya mean the revelation that the Bush State Department unlawfully breached his Passport Information on at least three separate occasions over the 71 day period between 1/9/08 - 3/14 without alerting or informing him until 3/20 while Clueless Condi couldn't be bothered to call and apologize to him until the following day.

In addition to being a damned liar, that makes her criminal, incompetent or both.

Sure thing, flush.

Yeah, along with the tanking economy, sky-rocketing gas, heating oil and food prices folks are really gonna hold the ongoing criminal activities of the Bush Administration against him.

Ignorant, ill-informed, kukluxkrishtin, white-supremacist slime, Anti-American, dimwitted ditto-heads who take their marching orders from a lard-butted, lunatic-fringe, chicken-hawk oxy-contin-addicted-moron, talk-radio host who hated McCain's guts and trashed him 24/7 until he realized Hillary just might lose to Obama and the gops wouldn't even have Hillary-Hatred to pull them through in November.

You know, morons. Anonymous, Anti-American, Oxy-morons with bupkis desperately trying to fan Counterfeit-Christian flames of racism because no gop can run on the Bush/Cheney record of accomplishment because there aren't any.

"The only hope for the Dems is that the super delegates get behind Clinton and run a real campaign with a real candidate."

Mega-dittos, flush!

Nice try, schmuck. The only hope for Clueless McCain, the lard-butted, lunatic-fringe, oxy-moron and factually-challenged, nameless-nitwit, Unamerican, nameless-nitwit shrub-shills spewin' ignorant-slop like you is that somebody, somewhere buys your bigoted rush-flush.

Vermont ain't it. Try Wyoming and Idaho. Ya can get Larry Craig to host a fund-raiser in an airport men's room near you.

Dismissed.
 
Interstingly enough the contractors that breached the passport files worked for a Company whose CEO is a Obama campaign advisor. Any thoughts on that Coopy? Windbag.
 
Anonymous said...

"Interstingly enough the contractors that breached the passport files worked for a Company whose CEO is a Obama campaign advisor. Any thoughts on that Coopy? Windbag."

Sure, little factually-challenged/fundamentally-dishonest-deduce-bag with bupkis fella.

Clearly, you don't.

None based in fact or with any ties to reality, anyhow.

Once again, little factually-challenged/lyin'-slime-all-the-time fella, your ludicrous, lunatic-fringe claims that you find something to be "Interstingly" enough would be enhanced if ya could actually spell the claim you can't substantiate, schmuck.

They'd still be horsebrit but ya wouldn't always prove yourself to be such a thick delusional-dreck merchant.

As always, little nameless-nitwit with bupkis fella, I hate to confuse your fundamentally-dishonest, ignorant ass with the facts, but - like Scooter, Blackwater, Halliburton and KBR before them, these Bush State Department contract-employees were retained by the Bush Administration.

That makes them accountable for any and all actions, inactions, misconduct, misdemeanors, felonies, ongoing criminal activity, gross-negligence and general moral turpitude on their behalf.

Assuming, of course, that the corporate entity you claim to be linked to Obama actually exists - a mighty big if as you once again proved with your delusional Daimler-Benz dreck, recently - there's no evidence of criminal, unethical, incompetent and/or inappropriate activity on Obama's part, little factually-challenged fishin' and flailin' for all you're worth fella.

On the other hand, there's little evidence of any thing but criminal, unethical, incompetent and/or inappropriate activity on the part of the Bush-leaguers you champion.

Once again, that leaves you ignorant-trash with bupkis.

I'm shocked.

That's what we in the real world call a fact. Clearly, you have no such standards in the bizarro world.

You're dumb, you're scum, ya got bupkis and you continue to waste my dog's oxygen, little lyin'-slime-all-the-time deduce bag fella.

Disappear.
 
Coopy,

We have been through this before. I know you are learning challenged so I will repeat it. I spell check for important people.

Interestingly (spelled correctly) your reply seems as loaded with as many assumptions as you believe my post to have had. Not a real surprise. You have yet to put a fact on the table in all your time here. Interestingly (spelled correctly again) insults are not facts. My original point stands and has been in the news for the last day and a half had you actually read something.... the contractors worked for a Company whose CEO is an Obama advisor. But I concede those nasty Bush people sure do have an amazing network of covert operatives. How long do you think they had to plot and scheme to put it in place my little delusion friend?


P.S. How's Fluffy?
 
Earth to JW

TAKE YOUR MEDS
 
I'll second that!
 
Anonymous said...

"We have been through this before."

Yes, nameless-nitwit. I agree. This is not the fist time you've spewed this factually-challenged, ignorant slop and lied your ass off.

Yes, you're ignorant trash with bupkis.

So stipulated.

Of course, it's not like ya got any other talents or material, schmuck.

"Interestingly (spelled correctly) your reply seems as loaded with as many assumptions as you believe my post to have had."

Congrats on successfully spelling "Interestingly", little fella. If only it applied to you are your factually-challenged ignorant slop.

Actually, my reply merely acknowledges your continuing success in burnishing your brain-dead, bigoted-trash with bupkis resume, little factually-challenged fella.

You do all the heavy lifting schmuck. I just point it out.

Unquestionably, ya didn't know what the hell ya were talkin' about, refused to be confused with the facts and lacked the ability to distinguish your ignorant ass from your bigoted elbow then, too.

In HMO terms, they're "preexisting conditions".

Moreover, it establishes the fact that you were dumb, scum and wasting my dog's oxygen then, too.

Your ignorant trash with bupkis bona fides were well-established long before I arrived on the scene, schmuck, as you're about to demonstrate courtesy of the BFP archives.

Thanks to them, I just have to hit the archives to find the facts.

You have to fabricate it them.

Doug Hoffer said...
Actually, according to the state Dept. of Labor, the avg. wage in the public sector is higher than the private sector ($38,400 vs, $34,946).

However, the figures vary significantly depending on which level of government: that is, the avg. wage for federal jobs in VT = $58,191 (5,991 jobs); state gov't. = $43,643 (16,282 jobs including the state colleges); and local gov't. = $31,856 (29,340 jobs including public school teachers).

Note that the "private sector" includes non-profits, which pay comparatively low wages.

It's noteworthy that only 60% of the jobs in VT are in the for-profit sector. The rest are about evenly split between government, non-profits, and the self-employed.

Finally, regular public sector employees generally have much better benefits than those in private sector (one of the reasons there is so little turnover). Says a great deal about the value of unions.

3:48 PM, October 01, 2007

Anonymous said...

Yeah, my definition of commercial is different. I was srictly talking about IT in commercial enterprise and was not including non-profits.

I was also speaking from direct experience and word of mouth, not statistics.

4:12 PM, October 01, 2007

Anonymous said...
I'll go with statistics over word-of-mouth every time.

8:56 PM, October 01, 2007

Anonymous said...
"Gov Patrick is on the radio and tv telling people that Mass is open for business and uses different business leaders to help - similar to the ads that FairPoint is using."

There's a big difference: the Mass. legislature is not doing everything it can to make the state inhospitable to business.

And by the way, having only 60% of our jobs in the for-profit sector seems like a recipe for economic mediocrity to me.

9:35 PM, October 01, 2007

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"Doug Hoffer said...
Actually, according to the state Dept. of Labor, the avg. wage in the public sector is higher than the private sector ($38,400 vs, $34,946).

However, the figures vary significantly depending on which level of government: that is, the avg. wage for federal jobs in VT = $58,191 (5,991 jobs); state gov't. = $43,643 (16,282 jobs including the state colleges); and local gov't. = $31,856 (29,340 jobs including public school teachers).

Note that the "private sector" includes non-profits, which pay comparatively low wages.

It's noteworthy that only 60% of the jobs in VT are in the for-profit sector. The rest are about evenly split between government, non-profits, and the self-employed.

Finally, regular public sector employees generally have much better benefits than those in private sector (one of the reasons there is so little turnover). Says a great deal about the value of unions.

3:48 PM, October 01, 2007


"Doug Hoffer said...
We're not talking about "truth"; just facts. Big difference.

If you can't accept facts without lashing out like a child, perhaps you should find some less threatening habit than this blog."

7:04 AM, November 04, 2007

Anonymous said...

"If you can't accept facts without lashing out like a child, perhaps you should find some less threatening habit than this blog."

Please make a note to yourself for future reference."
 
bupkis!
 
Apparently Coopy has taken his meds. He limited his barage of insults to only 2 paragraphs this time. Witness the kinder, gentler JWCOOP10.
 
yeah jw you go girl you sexy thing you
 
Is this JW chick trying to be funny? Cause she's not, it's always the same words used in varying orders. My 6 year old has more originality in his routine than her!

Get a life, woman!
 
Apparently the greatest insult to someone is to call them a woman.
Get a life misogynist!
 
No, the greatest insult to a woman is to be called jw.
 
Not the way the above posts read.
 
Ignorant trash with bupkis. I am truly a blessed fella to have such enemies.
 
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