Remember Howard Dean’s and the rest of the left’s mantra during the Bush administration: “Dissent is the highest for of patriotism.” Not so much these days.

Via Newsbusters:

ALEX WAGNER: I just wonder if you think all the vitriol directed towards the President really has to do with executive overreach or whether it’s Republican frustration that President Obama seems to have found, in some way, a work around their intransigence?

HOWARD DEAN: I just think the Republican Congress is incompetent. They are incompetent and they are untrustworthy. They’re – We’re paying them. They are doing nothing. They might as well just go home they did do something, excuse me. Yesterday the ethics committee decided to make it easier to hide the money, taxpayers money you spend when you take a congressional trip. These guys need to go and I think they get their butts kicked in November. People are sick of this. You know, they may like or may not like Barack Obama. There hasn’t been a debate about policy, a serious debate about policy for the last six months. And I think that the American people are just disgusted. I’m certainly disgusted with them. These are, really, people — I question their patriotism, really. I mean, we’re paying them to do something and they are doing nothing.