The Families First agenda makes no reference to political and campaign finance reform. That leaves Democrats still in the classic fix. They claim they're for the squeezed, but their campaigns are heavily funded by the squeezers. The Families First agenda allows the Democrats to talk the talk. Whether they can walk the walk while enriching its bank accounts is a contradiction they have yet to resolve.
Families First is a whimper.
Not a bad whimper, but it's a whimper in the dark. David Corn is the Washington correspondent for The Nation . All of this calls to mind a story told about Ben Turpin, the cross-eyed star of many Mack Sennett silent comedies.