Now he has the power

[beforewisdom]

With the selection of Howard Dean as its chairman, the 213-year-old Democratic Party has become something it has not been for a long time: exciting. A measure of that came three days before the 447 members of the Democratic National Committee chose him, at a pre-victory party Dean held in a microbrewery just blocks from DNC headquarters. Hundreds of his mostly young, mostly liberal supporters packed the place to hear Dean declare the Democrats to be the "party of the future." They also got a signal that he remained "their man," not the neutered version of himself that party insiders were still hoping he might become in his new role. When a backer bellowed the updated Harry Truman slogan that became a mantra for Dean's presidential campaign--"Give 'em hell, Howard!"--a wicked grin rippled across Dean's face. "I'm trying to be restrained in my new role," he chirped. "I may be looking for a three-piece suit." Then he burst into laughter and exclaimed, "Fat chance!"

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=nichols

[MikeyVT]

at a pre-victory party Dean held in a microbrewery just blocks from DNC headquarters


YES...microbreweries rock. Here is hoping that something actually changes because we all know the Dems need to start adressing things differently if they want to take back congress.

[Red]

...the 213-year-old Democratic Party has become something it has not been for a long time: exciting.

Train wrecks can be exciting, too.

[bethanie]

Wow, this should be exciting...not as in train wreck exciting, but as in...maybe something new and different will finally happen in government kind of exciting.

We'll see.

B

[mayuko]

a pre-victory party Dean held in a microbrewery

what a goddamn vermonter :lol: