Where Have All the Deaniacs Gone?

Howard Dean's even failing as a fundraiser:

No job description of "national chairman" could exclude the responsibility of raising the money necessary to mount a respectable performance in 2006. Here again, though, Dean has fallen short. Way short. During the first quarter of 2005, Dean's Democrat National Committee raised $16.7 million. In contrast, Ken Mehlman's Republican National Committee raked in $32.3 million, nearly twice the amount. Indeed, the Republicans nearly matched Dean's three-month take in one night: May 17, on which the GOP raised $15 million.

Asked about this on Meet the Press on May 22, Dean pretended it was no big deal. "Well, that's -- I think that's fine. You know, Republicans have always been better at raising money than we have," he said. But Dean wasn't being honest. For example, during the 2004 election the Democratic National Committee raised and spent more money in its losing effort than did the GOP.

I can't believe the GOP is losing to this idiot on judicial nominations.