One of the better aspects of last nights episode of K Street, was when Begala and Carville told Dean not to answer hypotheticals and used Bush’s insistence as an example of political discpline–he’s learning, well sort of.
Slate’s Editor Jacob Weisberg runs a hysterical bit on Bushisms finding the best of the President’s malapropisms. Some, such as Eugene Volokh get a bit huffy about them, while they are generally harmless fun. In that spirit is seems to me that Dean is good at having verbal spasms that lend themselves to poking fun as well–let’s call them Deanasms.
Here’s the first.
"One thing about being a doctor is that I don’t often speculate about something I don’t know," Dean, a physician, said in an interview with the Tribune earlier this month. "That’s a very dangerous thing to do . . . so I basically trained myself not to do it. If you have no decent evidence, I don’t think you should talk about it."
Earlier in the same day, though, Dean pointedly accused the White House of having its hand in the effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis. When pressed, he acknowledged he had no evidence to support his claim.
Jeff Zeleney has a dry sense of humor.