Bob Herbert nails it - again - on Gramm's comments and the Dems.

[Faygo Kid]

I wish I could excerpt the whole thing. It's right on. And those who know my posts here know that I'm an unconditional Obama backer, but this is just too good to miss. I'm sure it's been posted on DU elsewhere, but I want this one on DU: Presidential. Go to the link and read it all. This guy ought to be a poster here on DU.

July 12, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Feeling No Pain
By BOB HERBERT

. . . Barack Obama got a lot of play with his clever response to the Phil Gramm madness. “You know, America already has one Dr. Phil,” said Mr. Obama. “When it comes to the economy, we don’t need another.”

Cute. But woefully inadequate. The Democrats, timid as always, should be pounding the populist pavement from one coast to another, explaining how the reckless and deliberately inequitable policies of the past several years have gotten the U.S. into this terrible fix.

We should be getting chapter and verse about how badly the war in Iraq is hurting us here at home. We should be seeing charts and graphs explaining how ordinary Americans, now the hardest-working people on the planet, have been cheated out of their share of the extraordinary productivity improvements they’ve racked up over the years.

There should be a sense of urgency coming from the Democrats in this campaign, a clarion call compelling enough to rally the legions who have been treated unfairly and badly hurt in the nation’s other undeclared war: the class war. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/opinion/12herbert.html?hp

[mucifer]

1. Dems always make this point. But, the press will never cover it.

The press only will consider right wingers populists. If you watch cspan you will see plenty of dem politicians screaming the truth to the press who only cares about Rev Wright and Jesse Jackson and the so called "Obama flip flops".

[Orsino]

3. They need to do more than make the point, then.

We could have closed the Enron loophole years ago, and the "new" Dem majority is out of excuses.

Congress can make the point by passing a bill.

[applegrove]

2. That is the real story here. That McCain admits to being sight-blind

in regards to understanding the economy and so relies on "anyone" for advice.