Noemie Emery in The Weekly Standard
The Dems’ Week from Hell From the February 14 / February 21, 2005 issue:
They’re in a hole, and they keep digging
EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN WRONG with the Democrats in the past several years was on vivid display during Hell Week: the teeth-grinding shrillness; the race card, misplayed with such gusto; the self-interest so blatant it defeats its own purpose; the crippling dearth of ideas. With a few brave exceptions (a faction of one named Joe Lieberman), the Democrats split into two major camps: the wingnuts–Dean, Boxer, and Kennedy–who know what they think, which alas sets them at odds with the rest of the country; and the caucus of cowards–Bayh, Edwards, and Kerry–who believe in nothing so much as their own career prospects, and change their minds on the gravest of war and peace issues on the basis of what serves their ends.