Things are actually much worse than anyone ever talks about. The pivot points of our financial system have become profoundly corrupted. Balance sheets are "fictions" that still hide trillions of dollars in liability.
In a government already so tightly tied to traditional broadcast television, any push to burden the Internet in a way that would only benefit traditional broadcast TV is, in a word, icky.
Representatives must remain dependent upon citizens, not upon special interests, and the Supreme Court has made that practically impossible. Only an amendment can reverse this now.
Following the Supreme Court's weakening of the appearance of corruption standard in Citizens United, the Democratic Ethics Committee may now be doing the same.
For let us not forget: for a president overwhelmingly elected just a year ago, with a super majority in both the House and Senate, the health care reform legislation has been a bizarrely difficult fight.
