Investor's Business Daily, by Sean Higgins Posted By: slyscribe- Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:53:57 GMT Following up on Capital Hill’s earlier reporting blog on this subject, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean spoke with the National Journal Tuesday and said he thinks Democrats would benefit politically from a shutdown. “If I was head of DNC, I would be quietly rooting for it,” said Dean, speaking on a National Journal Insider’s Conference panel Tuesday morning. “I know who’s going to get blamed — we’ve been down this road before.”