No mention what the Democrats would do to company executives who fail to heed this call. The Republicans had all these different think tanks waiting for years with one constitutional amendment or another. They did not achieve all that much. It's hard to move so far and so fast. We did not want to come forward with our brand of extremism to match theirs.
People are tired of that.
But Democratic staffers insist that their party's restraint is not based entirely on cynical calculations. As Gephardt confessed, Democrats in the past failed to address the problems of the middle class. 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.