Today's WaPo describes Howard Dean's post-caucus loss speech:
It wasn't what Dean said, which was normal, but the animated way that he said it that inspired the questions."You know something?," he began. "You know something?," he repeated, his volume rising. "Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin. We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico."
By now shouting hoarsely, he went on: "We're going to California and Texas and New York, and we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House.
"Yaaaaaaaaaah!"
That's what the American people want, for sure. A President who is quoted in the Washington Post as saying, "Yaaaaaaaaaah!"
Just imagine:
Chief Justice Rehnquist: I will now administer the oath of office. Please place your left hand on the Bible, here...raise your right hand, and repeat after me: I, Howard Brush Dean, do solemnly swear...Almost-President Dean: Yaaaaaaaaaah!
The "explosive" outbursts would continue throughout the Dean Presidency...
President Takes Reporters' Questions at African-American Clergy Christmas Prayer Breakfast State Dining RoomQ: Mister President, recent rising violence in Iraq has led many to question your decision to reduce the American presence there by almost two-thirds, and replace it with a much smaller contingent of UN peacekeepers. Are you confident that your strategy is the right way to go for Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: Blahuurrgh! Next.
Q: Your dismissals of your predecessor's plans to build a moon base as "Bush's Base," and your threats to scrap the entire space program and use the money to build urban farming co-ops, are being called "vindictive" by some--
THE PRESIDENT: Some? Who? Names!
Q: Well, the Director of NASA has said--
THE PRESIDENT: Yeeeeaaargh! Aren't we having fun? You there--Miss Thomas.
Q: And what are the First Family's plans for the upcoming holidays?
THE PRESIDENT: Eeep. And a turkey.
When a would-be Democratic nominee for the Presidency is going "Yaaaaaaaaaah!" there's not much more to be said. What we really need now, though, is a Dean-Bush debate. I'd pay to see that.
Moderator: How would you describe your future anti-terrorism efforts?DEAN: Heeewack!
Moderator: You have the rebuttal, Mister President.
BUSH: I think that I have assembled the best strategiciary for this job...I've got a good team, and they advise me right, so that, when the time comes, we will have the best imagination, that is, for defending our country against the terrible future...uh...basically, we'll kick ass. As often as necessary. Until it's not necessary.
Mmm...I love the smell of the Big Political Funny on my monitor in the morning...
