[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 26 (Tuesday, March 8, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THERE THEY GO AGAIN

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, Howard Dean, the new duly elected chairman of 
the Democratic Party, had quite a kick-off tour recently. He started 
off by making racially insensitive remarks about African Americans and 
Republicans. Then he said he ``hates Republicans and everything they 
stand for.'' Next he told a group of activists in Kansas that 
Republicans are evil. The battle between Democrats and Republicans, he 
said, is a ``struggle between good and evil, and we are the good.''
  It would be easy to write this off as just another Dean rant. But a 
woman in the audience, and remember, this is Kansas, hardly a left-wing 
bastion, said Dean did not go far enough. He was too conservative, she 
said.
  Mr. Dean is the leader of a major political party. Even if his 
demagoguery is too timid for some activists, he represents the 
Democratic Party and its views, and his comments are yet further 
confirmation that the rhetoric of the left is eroding our political 
discourse.

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