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LEWISTON — The Bush White House is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history since President Warren G. Harding's, said Howard Dean during his first visit to Maine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dean's comments Saturday came as top White House advisers are being investigated for their roles in the outing of a CIA operative and Tom DeLay, the former second-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, faces conspiracy and money-laundering charges.

"The first thing we're going to do is we're going to have ethics come back to Washington again," said Dean, the keynote speaker at Saturday night's annual fundraising dinner for the Maine Democratic Party at the Lewiston Armory.

To deal with the "culture of corruption," Dean said, there needs to be an ethics code in Congress and stronger campaign finance laws. . . .

Dean said Republicans should not have interfered in the Terri Schiavo right-to-life case.

"I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing," Dean said. "We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America."

Memo to Howard Dean: We have freedom in America. It is because President Bush and the majority Republicans in Congress are nothing like the ayatollahs he's referring to that he is allowed to make statements like this without fear of being imprisoned or hung for speaking out against those in power.

Honestly..."fight for freedom in America" by writing stronger campaign finance laws? Give me a break. The campaign finances laws we already have are going a long way toward limiting political speech in this country. They are not making us more free regardless of what Howard Dean has to say on the subject.

This guy needs to remove his head from his rectum.