Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton keeps on working while those around her take vacations, lay low on bus tours, or spend time laying out the melodramas of their lives on national television. Senator Clinton is making appearances in Nevada, touting the importance of a Democratic presidential victory this fall, trying to gin up support for the DNC's favorite son, Senator Obama. Meanwhile, here's where everybody else is. Senator Obama: on vacation (Hawaii) Speaker Pelosi: on vacation DNC Chair Howard Dean: on a bus tour to register voters (most recent stop Pittsburgh) John Edwards: on television (proclaiming his own narcissism) I have nothing against vacationing. Or voter registration. I do object to narcissism, and I don't quite understand how proclaiming oneself a narcissist provides any excuse or justification for behaving selfishly, deceitfully, and hypocritically. But, I digress. The Democratic National Party has a problem: its leadership and its favorite son, Senator Obama, seem unable to generate the sort of enthusiasm that leads to winning the Presidency of the United States of America. The only person who seems to be trying to do anything about this is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has gone on the offensive against the Bush administration and even after all that has happened touts the importance of backing Senator Obama should he be the ultimate nominee. Senator Clinton also takes responsibility for fundraising to retire her primary campaign debt while encouraging her supporters to support the DNC for the sake of the downticket Democrats who so badly need a functioning party apparatus to help them secure victory in the contests they face in November. I realize that Dr. Dean is not on vacation nor on TV. But should the DNC chair be on a bus registering voters when he could be providing leadership and making it clear at the least that both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama will be given an equal and genuine opportunity to be elected the Party's candidate to run in November? Arguably, if Dr. Dean truly cares more about the Democrats winning the White House, rather than saving his own face, he could and should be meeting with a nonvacationing Senator Obama asking him to make way for Senator Clinton to be the only candidate whose name gets entered into nomination at the Convention. Either way, riding around on a bus doing voter registration just does not seem like the highest and best use of a DNC chair's time when his party is facing a meltdown in a year it should be handily beating the Republicans. I applaud Senator Clinton's determination to keep on keeping on. The rest of the folks on my list: I simply do not understand how they think their conduct is contributing to the election of a Democrat to the White House this fall.