Reporting Corruption at Glacial Speed

In June, Roll Call and Mother Jones reported that part of the patent reform bill pending before Congress contained a provision that would bail out one law firm, WilmerHale, which blew a deadline to extend a patent for a drug company, the Medicines Co.

The congressman who was pushing this was Jesse Jackson, Jr. While Democrats were behind this measure to rewrite the law to save the profits of one drug company and to save one law firm from a huge malpractice bill, quite a few opposed it and there were enough Republicans standing up to do what is best for the rich and influential among us.

So today, the NY Times ran with the story. Nice catch, guys.

I spend a lot of pixels on this blog blasting the GOP for being the party that looks out for and protects the interests of the rich and the powerful. That is still true, but let's not kid ourselves: The Democrats do the same thing. Maybe the Democrats aren't as slavishly evil about it (the GOP would never have passed the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act), but they still go out of their way to help those oppressed big law firms and corporations.

Kill this bill.