Stark Raving Dean

Howard Dean, that is. He's at it again. In a speech to college Democrats
Friday night, Dean went into orbit; among other things, he denounced the
Supreme Court's Kelo decision and blamed it on President Bush:

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. We think that eminent domain does not belong in the private
sector. It is for public use only.
This is utterly bizarre. President Bush has not yet nominated anyone to the
Court, and the Kelo majority consisted of the Court's liberals (plus Anthony
Kennedy), with the Court's conservatives (plus Sandra O'Connor) dissenting.
Either Dean is astonishingly ignorant, or he assumes that young Democrats
are.

As he does in speech after speech, Dean accused Republicans of being
immoral:

We are Democrats because we have moral values, We think it's a moral value
to stop stealing money out of the Social Security trust fund.
More lunacy. Ever since Social Security taxes started generating a surplus,
that surplus has been spent on other government programs, under Democratic
and Republican administrations alike, and regardless of which party
controlled either house of Congress. Dean can't possibly be ignorant of this
fact.

Then there's this: "'I am sick of being divided!' Dean shouted over the
applause." Yes, that's right: Howard Dean, uniter of Americans!

Yet Dean continues as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and an
overwhelming majority of Democrats cheer his absurd pronouncements. Isn't it
reasonable to ask, at this point, whether there are any adults left in the
Democratic Party? And if so, where are they?