House Revives Bankruptcy Bill

That headline in the Times this morning will put everyone to sleep. Which is really too bad. The original version of the bill would have prevented anti-abortion protestors who were sued by the abortuaries and their accomplices from taking advantage of the bankruptcy laws. Losing a million dollar lawsuit would have meant owing pretty much every penny the protestor made for the rest of his life to the anti-life people. The Republicans have – thanks be to God – dropped that provision.

But the Republicans, being Republicans and bought-and-paid-for by Leviathan, Inc., are still going to push the rest of the “reform” bill which will make it even more difficult for ordinary people to elude the grasp of the credit card companies. The advertising and the solicitation methods these companies use seem to me to be intentionally deceptive, if not dishonest. A government which wasn’t up to its earlobes in bribes (we call them “campaign contributions”) would be making it easier to elude the grasp of these grasping outfits, not more difficult.