He rolled back regulations on mining on federal lands, logging in federal forests, carbon dioxide in the air and arsenic in our drinking water. He cut the budget for energy conservation and alternative sources of energy. He announced plans to drill for oil in the Alaskan wilderness. And Mr. Environment hasn't said boo. There's a huge leadership vacuum in the Democratic Party.
Somebody has to step in to fill it.
And somebody just did. Not Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry or Joe Lieberman, either. In fact, the Democrats' newly-emerged leader isn't even from Washington. She's from Hollywood. Enter Barbra Streisand.