I admit I've spent the past
few months feeling annoyed, no, furious, with Pres. Obama and the Democrats in
general for cutting deals with Big Pharma, selling out to corporate interests
and not doing enough to help the people who elected them by living up to our
highest ideals. I'm painfully aware of how much better the Health Care Reform bill
could have been, of how much corporate money has diluted it. Part of the
problem, which needs to be addressed immediately, is the obsolete,
unconstitutional, segregation-era tactic of the Senate filibuster that requires
a 60-40 majority. That has to be changed so that a simple majority can enact
all legislation. Without cloture, Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman would still be
groveling in near-anonymity trying to get someone to pay attention to them.
But on a related front, today I received a notice in the mail from Bank of America regarding my credit card, noting a few changes coming in February. I braced for the worst, then started reading.
