Dean gets another one right [View All]

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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

Well over a year ago, before the New York Times had given Dean stories Ornstein Banishment treatment (and then given up and allowed them again); before magazine covers became run-of-the-mill; before even Howard Fineman saw what was coming — before all that, Howard Dean was criticizing his party for signing on to No Child Left Behind.

Dean would tell any reporter or voter who would listen exactly what was going to happen with the law and why it wouldn't work and why Democrats in Washington had made both a substantive and political mistake by helping the president pass it.

Dean "knew" NCLB behind was not going to work out exactly as planned because he was a governor; because he didn't vote for it; because he knows how education works in the states; because he was confident that the Bush economic plan would keep full funding from being available; and because he had a good enough political ear to hear how well received his attacks on it by Democratic (and other) audiences from sea to shining sea.

The must-read story of the day is the Washington Post 's Jim VandeHei's I-told-you-so bouquet to Howard Dean on why the president just might be vulnerable on what the White House touts as one of the major 43 accomplishments.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17509-2003Oct12.html