Dean Keeps on Giving

John Cole's Balloon Juice ridicules Howard Dean for his blaming W for Kelo

“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.

The problem that Cole misses is that the MSM will not call Dean on his untruths, their fact checkers are fully tasked with Ken Mehlman. Some folks read blogs, but a lot of folks will swallow this hook, line, sinker, and monkeyfish...

Hat-tip: Instapundit

Politics Posted by jk at July 27, 2005 11:55 AM