Did Howard Dean Manipulate KS Governor Sebelius Into Publicly Criticizing The White House?
Posted on May 10, 2007
I stumbled on this post at Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air. I normally don’t do this, but the accusation is serious enough to warrant a word for word repost of the allegations, with original links, just to make sure that nothing is “lost in translation”:
Did Howard Dean order KS gov to lie about FEMA’s response to the Greensburg tornado?
posted at 6:44 pm on May 10, 2007 by Bryan
Send to a Friend | printer-friendlyXM Radio’s Quinn & Rose made the allegation that DNC Chairman Howard Dean called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius early Sunday morning and instructed her not to request federal assistance in recovery from the Greensburg tornado, and to lie about the federal response to date, on their show, The War Room, today. After I discussed the story via phone with both Quinn and Rose today, here’s what they sent me.
PLEASE NOTE: The following is information we have received from a reliable source. We have never been misinformed by this person in the past.
It seems that, on Sunday, a few hours after Kansas Governor, Kathleen Sebelius, made her remarks about Bush sending all their National Guard Members and Resources to Iraq, she made a call to Brownback
Sebelius, was calling to apologize to the Senator for making the Political statements that she did. She explained that she did not believe them and that they actually had too many National Guardsmen show up.
Governor Sebelius explained “Sam, you know how political everything is right now and we’re not allowed to let an opportunity like this just pass.†She continued “I made sure not to blame you or Pat (Senator Roberts?) or anybody outside the White House. With his (Bush’s) numbers, you can’t really blame me for usin’ that.â€
Then Sebelius explained the path to her comments. After Brownback told her that he was very disappointed in her, She pleaded “You know me Sam, I wouldn’t have said it if I didn’t have to.†She declared “Howard (Dean) called me around 5 o’clock (in the morning) and told me not to ask The White House for any help or make any statements until I heard back. Dick (Durban?) called me an hour or 2 later and that’s when he told me we needed to use this ‘n’ said to talk about the Guard all bein’ at war.â€
She then explained the thinking; “Speaker and Harry got so much heat on them from both sides over this damn war, ‘n’ they need to get the press on somethin’ else. I didn’t think it was right to use it like this either, but I didn’t see’s I had much choice in this climate, Sam.â€
She the[n] apologized a few more times and promised that she’d try to move away from the comment when she and Brownback were to meet up later and tour the damage, but she had to so it without disappointing Dean and Pelosi.
I asked them to characterize their source, and they replied that she or he would be in a position to have knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Brownback and Gov. Sebelius and has never misinformed them before. Sean Hannity has called Sen. Brownback’s office to either verify or debunk the story, but so far the senator has done neither. There is word that the senator may attempt a “limited hangout†strategy this weekend, in which he acknowledges that the conversation took place but won’t remember the Dean angle. Such a strategy, if that’s what Sen. Brownback does, might be an attempt to maintain comity in what has until now been by all accounts a smooth relationship between the Democratic governor and Republican officials in Kansas. Comity shouldn’t come at the price of truth, however.
At this point, I have no way of verifying whether DNC Chairman Howard Dean called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and instructed her to lie about the federal response to Friday’s devastating tornado. But I will make some calls and see what I can find out. Quinn & Rose’s story does fit the timeline and does fit the Democrat M.O. of late, in which they find a way to blame every single thing under the sun on Bush and on the war in Iraq. Other Democrat governors have pre-emptively blamed the lack of response to disasters that haven’t even happened yet on Bush and the war in Iraq. So on its face the story strikes me as very plausible.
More: Here’s the original post to catch everyone up on Sebelius’ original statements, the WH and Pentagon and Brownback rebuttals, and then Sebelius’ quick climb down. Obama makes his “10,000 dead†gaffe (has anyone seen video of that gem yet?) and Dingy Harry assails the WH long after Sebelius’ original statements had been debunked. **Here’s the Obama gem. Heh. I’d been off the site and missed it when Ian posted it.
KEEP IN MIND: these are only allegations, uncorroborated at this point. I will scour the vast resources of the internet for updates to either confirm or infirm the above story.
Now, if this is true, it’s the end of the Democrats. Pure and simple. At least it should be. If you have your own blog, or know someone who does, and this story develops into something tangible, we all need to go “Wolverine” on these guys, pop out the adamantine claws, and shred them to molecular-sized pieces. Sub-atomic, if possible.
We’ll see.
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You want “sub-atomic” pieces? Come on! These Dems can’t even tell the difference between a lie and a mistake, and you want them to deal with quantum mechanics? ;>)
Typical liberals. They must be exposed.
This seems a bit ridiculous. It is just hard to believe that Howard Dean has that kind of influence over a Governor that he could “order” her to do that. It just isn’t the way the party Chair works with a Governor. Sebilis can’t be forced to do this, she is head of the Democratic Governor’s Assoc.
She doesn’t answer to Howard Dean. I guess we will see if this goes somewhere, but I just don’t believe it happened.
Interesting Indeed!!!
Tried to do a Trackback to this post but got a message saying your site thought I was Spam…
AubreyJ………
Giv. Sebelius was the one who vetoed a bill a while back that would have forced abortion clinics to asdhere to minimal standards of safety and cleanliness. This wouldn’t surprise me one bit. The DNC would have probably cut the purse strings if she hadn’t said what she did.
AubreyJ: The same thing happens to me when I trackback with Haloscan. I get the same message, but the trackback shows up later.
I like the ‘n’ and the ‘doin’
as if it was recorded. nice touch.
pure Rove.
Thanks for the info, FourPointer…
AubreyJ………