Backpedal 101

Democrats Joseph Biden and John Edwards are criticizing party chairman Howard Dean, saying his rhetorical attacks on Republicans have gone too far.

Dean has said Republicans never made an honest living in their lives and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. DeLay has not been accused of any crime.

Dean "doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats," Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Responding to Dean's initial remark, Edwards said Dean "is not the spokesman for the party." Dean is "a voice. I don't agree with it,"

Oh common guys! Live and let live. Dean is the best thing to happen to the Republican party in years.