Howard the Donkey Has Another Problem With Truth

Ole Howie is out there again spreading joy in wacky Dem land, and this time he's rewriting recent history (h/t Balloon Juice):

He also said the president was partly responsible for a recent Supreme Court decision involving eminent domain.

“The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is ‘okay’ to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is,” Dean said, not mentioning that until he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court this week, Bush had not appointed anyone to the high court.

Dean’s reference to the “right-wing” court was also erroneous. The four justices who dissented in the Kelo vs. New London case included the three most conservative members of the court – Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the fourth dissenter.

The court’s liberal coalition of Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer combined with Justice Anthony Kennedy to form the majority opinion, allowing the city of New London, Conn., to use eminent domain to seize private properties for commercial development.

“We think that eminent domain does not belong in the private sector. It is for public use only,” Dean said.

Either Howard's a complete idiot, or his audiences are complete idiots. One of the above has to be true for him to think he can get away with these flights of fantasy. Howard also seems to be unaware that there are reporters at these events recording his words for posterity, and every time he makes dumb statements like this, the whole world knows about it pretty fast...and the blogosphere eats him alive.

Keep it up, Howard. You're our best weapon for 2006.