Folly's Rainbird

Ya know, when you listen to Dr. Demented long enough, the experience begins to take on a surreal quality, kind of like Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day. It's like you're undergoing a voluntary penance for something you did once but can't remember what it was, like a real-life "No good deed goes unpunished" caught in a temporal causality loop.

After a while you find it increasingly difficult to believe that the DNC Chairman, indeed that any living human being outside an insane asylum, could possible be this consistently verbally incontinent. You start wondering whether he's playing a role as part of a larger, ironically subtle strategy to rehabilitate the Democrat party after its previous years of extremist mania. The possibility that he may just really be a reactionary blowhard of legendary proportions seems to shrink steadily until it vanishes altogether.

The proof in the pudding would seem to be how soon the DNC gets rid of Chairman How. But they haven't done so yet, and he's still at it:

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, unapologetic in the face of recent criticism that he has been too tough on his political opposition, said in San Francisco this week that Republicans are "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."

Howie hasn't visited the United States Senate lately, has he? My goodness, if he ever repeated this within hugging distance of Senator McCain, the Supreme Chancellor might never release the embrace.

"The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people," Dean said Monday, responding to a question about diversity during a forum with minority leaders and journalists. "We're more welcoming to different folks, because that's the type of people we are. But that's not enough. We do have deliver on things: jobs and housing and business opportunities."

Provided that "different folks" do and believe and vote as folks like Dr. Demented tell them to, of course. Otherwise they get the Clarence Thomas/Miguel Estrada/Janice Rogers Brown/Ken Blackwell treatment.

I also can't help wondering how he could denounce Republicans as "never having made an honest living in their lives" a few days ago and then pirouhette into "[Dems] have to deliver on things [like] jobs and housing and business opportunities." Isn't he essentially equating "making an honest living" to going on the welfare dole?

Mneh. I'm doing it again - making the mistake of applying logic to calculated gobbledygook. I'm becoming more and more convinced that Dean is the distraction, the designated jester intended to distract us from something else, something far more insidious. Or perhaps it's as simple as sending him out there to repeatedly soil himself and drive up our overconfidence/complacency quotient.

Either way, whether or not Chairman How is playing a role or being himself, I think the Democrats are utilizing his "talents" to far more serious ends.

[HT: Captain's Quarters]