DEMOCRATS SEE NO IRONY IN RUNNING AGAINST THEMSELVES: Well, that’s often the case when a Democrat running for president has to run against while the current Democrat is still in office making a mess of the country with his socialist policies — Bobby Kennedy ran in ’68 in opposition to not just only the escalation of the Vietnam War by LBJ, but also against the sunny “can do” optimism of his brother’s New Frontier. In 2000, Al Gore rejected Bill Clinton’s centrist policies and their success; as Michael Kinsley noted immediately before the election, the punitive leftism of Gore boiled down to an attitude of “You’ve never had it so good, and I’m mad as hell about it.”

And yesterday, as John Hinderaker writes at Power Line, “Joe Biden delivered a populist oration on the occasion of Labor Day:”

Biden ripped the stagnant American economy of recent years:

“I’m mad, I’m angry,” Biden thundered, attacking the U.S. economy as “devastating for workers.”

That’s what we’ve been saying for the last 6 1/2 years. Where has Biden been all this time? Oh yeah, that’s right–he’s been the vice president. The economy is lousy for most workers because of a lack of economic growth. In my view, slow growth is largely the consequence of the administration’s economically ignorant policies, in particular, over-regulation. But for the unsought (by the administration) fracking revolution, conditions would be even worse.

So how can the vice president run against his own administration?

Just how devastating have the last six and half years have been? Feel the Bern!

And of course, as Glenn noted earlier, despite having a Dickensian story line being handed to them with easy to photograph Margaret Bourke-White-style Depression-era visuals to accompany it, there’s no chance the media will touch this story, for fear of its impact on both Hillary’s chances, and The Won’s final days: