From a reader:

That correction Byron posted is great. I particularly love the way Dean calls a constitutional amendment a “short-circuit” of the debate. I’m against such an amendment, but to pretend that something that has to get two-thirds support in both houses of Congress and the approval of 3/4ths of the state legislatures is going to somehow short-circuit the debate is just nuts. That’s like saying we rushed into the Iraq war without debate, despite 18 months of constantly talking about almost nothing else. Oh, wait.

Me: Put another way: does anybody doubt for a fraction of a thousandth of a second that Dean would celebrate and embrace a Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage across the country? Does any one seriously dispute that he would never dream of calling such a decision a “short circuit” of Democratic processes?