Firing Blanks ... From Space?

As Karl Rove laid out a GOP victory strategy for 2006, Howie Dean took careful aim at his target ... and fired a blank.

Speaking to the RNC, Rove laid out an unsurprising campaign theme: The GOP as th party with ideas and the party that can protect America, while the DNC is a pre-September 11 party offering only negativism -- "mean-spirited and small-minded."

DNC Chair Ken Mehlman chimed in to cover the corruption issue, vowing that reform will be central to the platform.

Over at DNC HQ, Howie looked at all this and considered how to respond. Sorting through the options, looking for strength, he selected his theme and hollered it out:

"Karl Rove only has a White House job and a security clearance because President Bush has refused to keep his promise to fire anyone involved in revealing the identity of an undercover CIA operative. The truth is, Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is both unpatriotic and wrong."

Well, Karl, first of all, you'll not that the Scooter indictment had nothing to do with National Security or outing spies, nothing.

More importantly, Valery Plame is not national security, NSA is. The DNC is attacking Bush on NSA, to quote Howie, "for partisan gain and that is both unpatriotic and wrong."

These guys are not, like Miracle Max said in the Princess Bride, "only partly dead." They are dead-dead, because it's obvious their brains have simply stopped functioning. Or maybe they've just left the planet ...


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