She sounds like Bush without the power.

People who disagree with her condemnation of Bush are in fact likely hoodwinked or stupid - or lying.

That Slate article isn't loading - I take it Weisberg considers how Reid has been pushing Frist around and calls that a lack of force by writing "la la la"?

So let me get this straight. In a jab at Pelosi's intelligence (which is how the comparison is framed, as a contrast with being "stupid"), Weisberg knocks her for a lack of knowledge. As I understand them, intelligence and knowledge are not at all the same. So Weisberg doesn't make his “I’m so clever” argument, which makes him look, well, stupid. In the piece Weisberg casts some other evidence-less (I'd even take a single anecdote) accusations at Dean and Reid.

No doubt the Democratic Party's leadership has been atrocious, but Weisberg's criticisms are illogical, unsupported and riddled with accusations based upon hidden, false assumptions. His addition to the FT Comment page, where this piece also ran, has been nothing short of pathetic in an otherwise fine publication.

Compared to incurious Bush, dead-eye-dick Cheney,
and F- grade history student Rummy, the others
can be seen as geniuses with what they have.

Oooohhhh, that was a threefold wigging!

Weisberg certainly took Pelosi down about 15 pegs with that 5-minute crack. He priases Dean with faint damns, saying that while Dean is smarter than the others and stands for something. But in the minds of most people Dean stands for 'incandescent rage and upscale socialism'. True enough. I do disagree with a Deanism, the 'merlot Democrats'. Merlot is a perfectly fine grap and good wine, so what the Merlot ever did to deserve being compared to the 'base' I don't know. Unless he's working the similar-sounding words wine and whine, in which case I can't help but agree......

It might actually be a good idea for the GOP to lose to these Keystone Kops on the grounds that taking back power would be relatively easy after 2 or 4 years of these geniuses 'running' the Congress.

Those of you who are mocking Weisberg are part of the problem with the Democratic Party. When will you figure out that playing the Angry Left, being just as corrupt as the Republicans, and telling Middle America what is good for them will never win elections unless you're 30 miles from an ocean?

Is it just me, or is Slate becoming increasingly hack-y? That Weisberg article reads like it was written by Murray Chass. I get so tired of Slate's boring-twist-on-conventional-wisdom thinkpieces. So Democrat leadership blows. Tell me what else is new. Don't even get me started on Hitchens, whose recent essays define the phrase "mailing it in," or Kaus, whose incoherence has become pathological.

Don S.

I believe Merlot got its' current bad rap
from the movie "Sideways".