Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/27-0

by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship - That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." Bierce vanished to Mexico nearly a hundred years ago -- to the relief of the American political class of his day, one assumes -- but in an eerie way he was forecasting America's political culture today. It seems like most efforts to reform a system that's gone awry -- to clean house and make a fresh start -- end up benefiting the very people who wrecked it in the first place.