Howard Dean: "I'd give anything to be in the WH and kick some serious butt over fixing this thing"

[kpete]

What Would Howard Dean Do?
Political Wire: I bet you're happy not to be the DNC Chair today?

Howard Dean: I'm happy not to be the DNC Chair, but I'd give anything to be in the White House and kick some serious butt over fixing this thing.

Listen to the whole thing:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/11/16/what_would_howard_dean_do.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/political-wire-podcast/id735358139

[Efilroft Sul]

1. Kick!

[Pinkflamingo]

2. I'd vote for Dean--- well if Florida lets me vote

[2banon]

17. You mean for President?

The only declarative Howard made in this piece on that subject is that he's is definitely backing Hillary Clinton... fyi.

[treestar]

3. What you'd have to give to be there

is something you didn't give. Obama did.

[raindaddy]

5. Unfortunately.....

it's beginning to look like Obama sold his soul.

[treestar]

6. Then Howard has to do that, then.

I don't subscribe to that cynicism.

[DonCoquixote]

29. THIS ^^^^^^^^

I expect the GOp to try and strike Obama's name of the walls, but what is sad is, the Dems will too, especially if Hillary wins.

[zeemike]

4. And I would give anything to have him there too.

but I suspect the PTB would never allow that.

[fadedrose]

7. What a coincidence

I emailed the WH just this morning about them making you "Health Czar" in absolute charge, free of anyone's interference to fix this thing.

Hasn't Barack called you yet, Howard?

They should. This has only been my 10th or more request...

But the DLC doesn't like Howard. He's not businessy enough for them, and they're all over the White House (now tampering with TPP).

[sabrina 1]

23. The DLC chose Rahm over Dean and Rahm went on to claim credit for what Dean did

to win elections.

Rahm pushed the ACA, but where is he now? And he told US progressives we had 'retarded ideas'. Too bad there were so few Progressives involved in all this at the time. Had the President been listening to them rather than trying to appease Republicans who clearly can never be appeased, we would not be here right now. The irony is, as the President himself pointed out, Obama gave them so much of what they demanded, '200 concessions' I believe he said, wondering why they were still not happy, and how many concessions were given to progressives?

Maybe it's a lesson learned, be loyal to those who voted for you and you'll be fine. The rest, once you win, will have to deal with losing rather than being treated as IF they won.

[grasswire]

8. maybe Obama should have appointed him to head this up.

Of course, the GOP would have tried to sabotage it under any person.

Dr. Dean is being wasted for our time. He should be on the ticket.

[tblue]

11. Obama should make him ACA Czar!

Let's start a petition.

[pamela]

21. That's a brilliant idea.

Obama could say that this project is so big, it needs someone devoted fulltime to it. It would appease the fire-Sebelius crowd without actually firing her.(And lets face it, she hasn't done a very good job of articulating and defending the ACA.) Dean is a good spokesperson. He doesn't pull punches and knows how to frame the debate.

Best of all, it would change the conversation. I wouldn't call him a Czar, though, something more mundane like special project manager.

You should stat an O.P. with this idea. I really think it's brilliant.

[Laffy Kat]

28. That is such an awesome idea, tblue.

[Blue_Tires]

20. I think Dean would have been a perfect chief of staff

of course all the DLC morons were bending themselves backward trying to explain why Emanuel was the 'smart' choice....

[summerschild]

26. I wanted Howard Dean named head of HHS from the jump. I couldn't believe President Obama didn't

name him to any post after all he did for Obama and the Democrats.

I still support Obama but his appointments have sucked for the large part, and that includes Sebelius. You haven't seen Sebelius out on the stump or defending/promoting ACA at all until now when it's in the dumper. She's useless in my opinion.

Anyone who's ever dealt with computer applications should have recognized this could be a monster and had people riding it day in and day out from day ONE.

[eissa]

27. Me too!

I thought he would have been perfect at HHS, and didn't understand what made Sebelius more qualified for that position. He certainly couldn't have done any worse than she's doing.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. He will not go gently under that good bus

Spoilsport.

[madfloridian]

18. None go gently, Manny.

Some of us less gently than others. Go Howard!

[DJ13]

12. WTF?

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. I am so glad it was self-deleted.

I was all "whut??"

[tblue]

15. I just listened to it

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear Dean say that exactl, but what I did hear was really, really good stuff. How to fix this NOW and remembering what the objective of ACA is and how Upton and other proposals undermine that. Great ideas, which would serve Obama well. Take a listen. It's really good!

[DJ13]

25. +1

[mzmolly]

14. Would that it were

so.

[2banon]

16. That was a great comment by Howard.

It's interesting to hear his pov, especially on the topic of Health Care Reform and the ACA,, how to manage where we are right now and his comments on the politics of the situation.

[liberal_at_heart]

19. Dean is a little too economically conservative for me, but he is a fighter and we need a fighter.

[bvar22]

24. Dean looks like Fringe Leftist FDR radical ...

...compared to the Economic Policies coming out of the current administration.



You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]

[ProSense]

30. I suppose that's why in the clip he says he supports Hillary,

the "Fringe Leftist FDR radical."

LOL!

[geek tragedy]

22. Just like he'd like to make the law more friendly to the big pharmaceutical companies

that he represents as a non-lobbyist lobbyist.

[Wilms]

31. ^