TOMPAINE.com - Buried Alive Gephardt's 'New Economic Agenda' Fails To Resonate In The Media

In Gephardt’s post-speech Q&A with the press, Mark Shields (of The Washington Post, CNN and PBS) tried to pin Gephardt down on whether or not he blamed Bush’s 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax cut for the nation’s economic woes -- but Gephardt danced away from answering, "avoiding any discussion of whether to repeal or delay" it, as The Boston Globe story put it.

That’s hardly a prescription for a significant voter turnout, which the Democrats need to win. Unless the Democrats stop their fuzzy me-tooism, they won't get the voters' attention, or the media's, for that matter. In any case, it may be too late.