Webloggin » Dean Lowers Nutroot Expectations in Conference Call

Earlier I wrote about the outrage expressed by nutroot bloggers over the decision to let Joe Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Oversight Committee.

In the wake of that outrage Howard Dean held a blogger conference call with unhinged lefty bloggers, including Jane Hamsher of Firedog Lake. Those paying attention remember Hamsher as the leftist skuzbag that black faced Joe Liberman on the Huffington Post while campaigning for another lefty nutbag, Ned Lamont.

In that call Dean explained to them gingerly that Obama’s task at hand is to govern by reaching across the aisle and uniting the divisions while simultaneously stating that Lieberman’s actions were unforgivable.

Dean: So the hard part now, and you’re going to have to make this adjustment, I’m going to have to make this adjustment–we won. Now we have to govern and that’s a different skill set and it requires some restraint and some thoughtfulness and you know, I think I can be thoughtful. I now have to practice being restrained….

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Dean: One of the things that happens when you have a party that takes over the government after it’s been out of power for a while is you cannot satisfy everybody at your end of the political spectrum all of the time…. And this is where I was talking about the restraint, is making the decision about what’s really worth fighting for and having the big fight inside the party and what’s not worth fighting for and you have to decide what that is.

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Dean: What I’m saying here is along comes Lieberman. He behaved very badly during the campaign and did some things that inside the club are unforgivable. So if you run and get a mandate for reconciliation is your first act to kick this guy out of the party? Well, people of my generation think yeah, damn right we should. But in this new spirit of reconciliation, which is why I think Barack Obama got elected by 66 percent of the under 35 vote, maybe if not (unintelligible) I’m very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Senators and to Barack Obama on that one. Do we want to have a big fight over what happens to Joe Lieberman? I don’t think so.

Leave it up to Dean to get the numbers wrong. Obama got 66% of the 18-29 demographic, but then again Democrats don’t rely on facts.

Notable was Hamsher in the call:

Jane Hamsher: With all due respect Governor Dean, we were just told to go screw ourselves, that our concerns for Barack Obama and our concern about the war and everything else that we fought so hard for within the Democratic party is meaningless and that Joe being happy and giving in to his threats–and he did threaten Democrats in his press conference–is more important than we are. And so I don’t think it was a matter of reconciliation. I think we were told to go Cheney ourselves.

Wah, Wah, Wah….

This is a preview of how the left is going to act when Obama doesn’t do everything by their playbook. Welcome to politics.

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