June 03, 2005
gobsmacker
I. DR. DEAN: When the Republicans were in power, they kept a much larger percentage of President Clinton’s nominees to the bench. They didn’t do it with the filibuster, they did it by bottling them up in committee and not allowing them to move forward.
MR. RUSSERT: The numbers are pretty similar actually.
DR. DEAN: OK. They’re similar.
II. DR. DEAN: Some of the things that the president said on our way into Iraq, they just weren’t true, and I don’t think that’s right. So…
MR. RUSSERT: Such as?
DR. DEAN: Such as the weapons of mass destruction, which we have all known about, but the…
MR. RUSSERT: Well, you said there were weapons of mass destruction.
DR. DEAN: I said I wasn’t sure, but I said I thought there probably were.
III. DR. DEAN: Well, first of all, [Bernie Sanders is] not a socialist, really.
MR. RUSSERT: He…
DR. DEAN: He hasn’t said that for a while.
MR. RUSSERT: Oh, he has a—he wrote in his book: “Outside or in the House, I am a Democratic socialist.”
DR. DEAN: Well, a Democratic socialist—all right, we’re talking about words here. And Bernie can call himself anything he wants.
(via Jonah Goldberg)
Posted by Anthony Perez-Miller at June 3, 2005 01:57 AM