We are, I fear, in the last days of Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was too good to last. Party chairmen are supposed to raise money and keep their mouths shut. Dean has been failing on both counts. Through April 30th this year, the Democrats had raised only $20.9 million, compared to $44.7 million for the Republicans. Dean was on a West Coast fund-raising swing last week. Turnout in Seattle and San Francisco, hotbeds of liberalism both, was less than the DNC expected. "There is an increasing whiff of desperation permeating the finance side...