Keep Screaming, Howard

The DNC Chairman is a doctor, but perhaps he should seek help from a mental health professional...

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."

As Powerline notes, it's somewhat strange to see Barney Frank representing moderation. But that's where the Democrats now stand, with folks like Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Harry "He's a Loser" Reid in charge.

Maybe this is all a secret plan to make Hillary look like a moderate. Either that, or Karl Rove really does have the ability to mind-control the Democrats and make them act like idiots.