The Scream will forever stand as the symbol of Howard Dean's self-immolation.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* The Scream will forever stand as the symbol of Howard Dean's self-immolation. But the flames had been licking around him well before that, stoked by the political vulnerabilities created by his total anti-Bush rejectionism (John Kerry pounded away at his advocacy of a full repeal of the tax cuts, pointing out that it would mean a large middle-class tax increase); his utter lack of seriousness on the Terror War (his statement that he could not prejudge the guilt of Osama bin Laden was otherworldly); his pugnacious unlikability ("George Bush is not my neighbor!" he thundered to one questioner in Iowa who had suggested he not attack his "neighbor" quite so fiercely); and his laughably obvious shifts in persona and ...