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12/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Dean had own secret energy group"

Posted by steve @ 08:50 AM EST [Link]

ENJOY THE GOLDEN CLOAK: In Dante's version of hell hypocrites were amongst the worst treated sinners. They were forced to parade around in beautiful cloaks made of golden thread which appeared to be as light as silk. This being hell, of course, the exact opposite was true. The cloaks were as heavy as something made of solid lead and the sufferers, who appeared to be wearing fine light garments, would receive no consoling words from onlookers.

I tell you this because Howard Dean will be wearing one of those cloaks one day. It has now been learned that Dean, who has been blasting away at Dick Cheney for months about secret meetings of his energy task force, himself had a secret energy task force when he was governor of Vermont. In fact, he used the exact same arguments in defending why his energy task force needed to be secret.

"The governor needs to receive advice from time to time in closed session. As every person in government knows, sometimes you get more open discussion when it's not public," Dean was quoted as saying.

Read on.