Editore"s Note
Tilting at Windmills

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March 11, 2005
By: Kevin Drum

THE YEAR IN REVIEW....I've been in a rotten mood lately, a feeling that I blame on the 109th Congress. Here's a summary of their first few weeks of activity:

  • Passed: A tort reform bill that makes it harder for ordinary citizens to sue corporations who harm them.

  • Coming soon: A bankruptcy bill that will make it harder for distressed workers to declare bankruptcy and will increase credit card company profits by an estimated $1 billion.

  • Coming soon: A transportation bill that adds two unpaid hours onto the work days of short-haul and long-haul truckers.

  • In progress: Changes to Social Security that will almost certainly include benefit cuts for current workers.

  • In progress: Making permanent a set of tax cuts that primarily helps the upper class.

And it's only the middle of March. Can anyone name even one thing the Bush administration has done this year or is proposing to do that would benefit ordinary workers? Do they even pretend to care any more?

UPDATE: I'm informed that the "unpaid hours" amendment to the transportation bill failed to pass in the House and probably won't in the Senate either. I feel better already!

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