couldn't have said it better myself

and i'm a howard dean fan, er used to be. i dont know what happened to him, but he seems to have been melded into the woodwork like all other democrats before him. anyway, what i wanted to say, but didn't have the words to do it, comes from slate:

Since assuming their positions, the three of them have shown themselves to be somewhere between useless and disastrous as party leaders. Individually, they lack substance and policy smarts (Pelosi); coherence and force (Reid); and steadiness and mainstream appeal (Dean). Collectively, they convey an image of liberal elitism, disarray, and crabbiness