Oh, it's done.
I'm so glad I didn't pay attention to the Washington-style sturm und drang.
The phasing - the temporizing - in the bill gives the lie to Obama's statement about "courage".
Anyway, one can savor the moment, even knowing that the "fixing" will start immediately.
How long do you think it will take for the Senate to gut the Student Loan stuff?
After all, this is the same Senate who couldn't bring themselves to allow bankruptcy judges to modify mortgage loans, during the middle of the largest mortgage crisis in the history of the country, probably.
Last week, Secretary Geithner was still lamenting that mortgage loan servicers had 'not done enough'. How many chances does one give them?