Let's not talk about the economy

In "Democrats' Prosperity Problem" George Will notes that the leading candidates on the Left have lots to say about Iraq but not much about the economy which has seen steady growth and low unemployment.

Democrats need not confine themselves to their ritual tropes about how "the middle class is under assault" (Clinton again). They control Congress; they can act. The unemployed John Edwards, who has the luxury of irresponsibility, challenges Democrats to repeal the Bush tax cuts they disapprove of rather than wait for them to expire.

Democrats cannot end the war (actually, they can but won't), but they can send their tax agenda to the president and dare him to veto it. They can, but they won't. Do you wonder why?

I think it's because they're busy with their important no confidence vote for Alberto Gonzales.

Update (6/11) - From Byron York on the Corner:

The Republican leadership in the Senate is confident it can win a planned preliminary vote on a resolution expressing no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A vote is scheduled later today on a Democratic attempt to end debate and move on to a vote on the resolution. That would require 60 votes, of course, and a GOP source says, "I don't think [Democrats] are going to get 10 Republican senators to join them." (That leaves open the question of how many Republicans will, in the end, go along with Democrats.) In addition, the source questions whether Democrats really want to go ahead with the matter at all. The source points out that after the immigration standoff, "Harry Reid said…we need to get on to important issues - and then turned around and basically gave us a four-day weekend followed by a vote on Gonzales. Democrats don't want to win this one; it would mean another week spent doing nothing."

In other words: situation normal on Capitol Hill.