Who is held responsible?

Medley catches a good piece from Gary Hart on how the Republicans will be judged for their mishandling of the war, and the Democrats for their silence.

My generation of Democrats jumped on the hot stove of Vietnam and now, with its members in positions of responsibility, it is afraid of jumping on any political stove.

There do seem to be a lot of openings for anybody to show some spine on current events -- didn't Dean win a lot of lifelong loyalists by simply saying what everybody was thinking? It's gotta be orders of magnitude easier (and clearer) now...