The ink was barely dry on Congress's extension last month of the Bush-era tax cuts for billionaires when a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll was released on January 3 showing that 81% of Americans think the rich should pay more taxes.
Though the GOP was the driving force behind that tax gift to the rich, the Dems (led by President Obama) are also to blame for taking the bait and compromising too quickly instead of playing hardball.
Congress clearly cares less about We The (little) People than they do about their rich corporate donors.
And that attitude is likely to continue, and perhaps worsen, now that We The (little) People have inexplicably given the GOP even more seats in the Senate and a majority in the House.
I guess the voters get what they deserve.
But I didn't vote for this.
And I don't think this is what our Founding Fathers had in mind for Democracy.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson himself once said, "I hope we shall crush ... in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Today, Jefferson is surely spinning in his grave.
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