Light blogging this weekend, but I was thinking about, and thought I'd remind everyone of what the Democratic Party has become (as if you could forget). Keep in mind, this is only a partial list and while people like Mayor Nagin of New Orleans say ridiculous things too, this list is more about Washington folks who hold power on a national level. I won't include celebrities in this list either, I'm strictly talking powerful leaders in the Democratic Party. I also won't be including the media in this list, although one could argue the public opinion they create based on lies and spin is often more powerful than any politician.

By the way I'm undecided at this point if I'll use more than one Howard Dean quote in this (because it's so hard to pick just one), but you can always refer to RightWinged.com exclusive "The Dean's List", which can always be found on the left sidebar.

Anyway, on to the lesson in civil discourse and patriotism from today's American Democratic Party.

Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party (via New York Daily News.)

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

Charlie Rangel, Congressional Democrat from New York (via New York Daily news)

The Iraq war "is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. ... This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed," the 74-year-old Harlem Democrat insisted during a Monday radio appearance on the WWRL-AM morning show with Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. "The whole world knew and they were quiet about it because it wasn't their ox being gored."

When interviewer Malzberg challenged Rangel's analogy, the congressman replied: "I am saying that people's silence when they know things terrible are happening is the same thing as the Holocaust."

Dick Durbin, Senate Democrat from Illinois talking about military treatment of detainees at Gitmo (via Fox News)
This is actually pulled from the article about his apology. An apology for anyone that was offended, not an apology for having said it, which he should have given.

"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings," Durbin said last week.

Hillary Clinton, Senate Democrat from New York (via Fox News) (video at ThePoliticalTeen.net)

The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said. "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

John Kerry, Senate Democrat from Massachusetts (via CBS News) (video at ThePoliticalTeen.net)

....And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women...

Barack Obama, Senate Democrat from Illinois (via ThePoliticalTeen.net and Fox News)
Here he admits out how the Dems should and will play politics this year (as if we didn't already know).

"It is arguable that the best politics going into '06 would be a clear succinct message: `Let's bring our troops home.'... I think [that] would probably have some pretty strong resonance with the American people right now, but whether that's the best policy right now, I don't feel comfortable saying it is."

Jay Rockefeller, Senate Democrat from West Virginia (via Fox News) (video at ThePoliticalTeen.net)
Many have argued that this is Rockefeller admitting to treason. At the very least, it's unacceptable for him to go the terrorist state Syria, who's President is part of the same political party like Saddam Hussein and tip them off months before the war. Saddam to Rockefeller, by way of Bashar Assad: "Thanks for the headstart on moving my WMDs Jay!"

ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.

John Murtha, Congressional Democrat from Pennsylvania (via USA Today)

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year because the Army is "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth," Rep. John Murtha told a civic group.

Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, husband of Senator Hillary Clinton (via USA Today)
Still the prince of the Democratic Party, and will forever hold a lot of power, Clinton chooses to go overseas before Arab students to call the Iraq war a mistake. (ignores taking military action himself under the same intel, and that based on that intel in a post-9/11 world we could just launch a couple scary missiles and hope "containment" would work)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Former President Clinton told Arab students Wednesday the United States made a "big mistake" when it invaded Iraq, stoking the partisan debate back home over the war.

Dennis Kucinich, Congressional Democrat from Ohio (via ThePoliticalTeen.net)

We did not authorize the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan ... Nor did we ask that the blood of innocent people, who perished on September 11, be avenged with the blood of innocent villagers in Afghanistan.

Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party (via WOAI) (audio at ThePoliticalTeen.net)

“idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,”

I'm bored with gathering these at the moment... but if you have any (mainly stuff from within the last year) that you'd like to add, email me or leave them in a comment. I'll try to add them to this post as they come in.