Molly's latest

[cornermouse]

This is well worth reading.

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2005/1142

...Drew writes, "The effects of the new, higher level of corruption on the way the country is governed are profound. Not only is legislation increasingly skewed to benefit the richest interests, but Congress itself has been changed. The head of a public policy strategy group told me: 'It's not about governing anymore. The Congress is now a transactional institution. ...' The theory that ours is a system of one-person, one-vote, or even that it's a representative democracy, is challenged by the reality of power and who really wields it. (Massachusetts Rep.) Barney Frank argues that 'the political system was supposed to overcome the financial advantage of the capitalists, but as money becomes more and more influential, it doesn't work that way.'"

I doubt there is a more important story in this country today. All reporters who want to be the next Woodward and Bernstein should follow Dubose and Martin to the local ends of this story...

[Demit]

1. Well, thanks for posting this...

But I don't see where your paragraph order is an improvement on Molly Ivins'. Better, I think, to reproduce a story the way it was written by the author of it.

[cornermouse]

2. Sigh.

Not an improvement. Just making sure that the actual information was not over looked and supplying the source second. But if that's the way you're going to take it....

...Happy? If not, I can fix that as well.