The Scream now Quacks!

Via MSNBC and the Associated Press, it's Howard Dean playing the race card for all it's worth:

MIAMI -- Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting.

Dean, chairman of the Democratic party, made the comments to the Baptists' Political and Social Justice Commission. The Baptist Convention, with an estimated 3.5 million members, is one of the largest black religious groups in the country.

"We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not," Dean said.

Notice that Dean doesn't actually say that conservatives or Republicans wanted to kill poor blacks, but the inference is in there, especially when he turns his attention to pending congressional action on elimination of the Death Tax (estate taxes).

Dean said that instead of considering proposed estate tax breaks, the Senate should channel the money into disaster relief.

"Shall we give that to the wealthiest people in the country, or should we rebuild New Orleans?" Dean said.

Nevermind that the estate tax hurts all Americans, rich and poor alike, and eliminates incentives among families to build generation-spanning wealth. Don't bother Howard with facts when he can fan the flames of racial envy.

Pure socialist drivel.