What is wrong with the Democrats today? Really. This is a serious post

[Stinky The Clown]

I'm not looking for drive-by platitudes or drive-by "spineless" type answers.

What, really, is wrong with today's Democratic Party.

It seems to me, in very broad brush, pretty much all of our elected representatives are doing what might be expected of them. I don't see a lot of surprizes. A few, to be sure, but not a lot. Just as an example, Leahy's vote on Roberts was a surprize.

But in the larger sense, what's wrong with the party?

In my view, it comes down to one word - 'leadership'.

We don't have a leader.

(Howard Dean is DNC chair. By definition, that isn't the party leader. I think he's been doing a great job is his new role and this is NOT a hit against him.)