[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]
Buried beneath the headlines of healthcare triumph this morning is equally precious news on education: college loan reform finally passed and looks likely to be signed into law, incredibly good important news for millions of our young people trying to get a college degree.
Josh Marshall writes this morning on the pervasive, pernicious groupthink that clamps down on Washington DC like a hungry octopus, perceptions of political and economic reality completely overwhelmed by fierce tentacles of lobbying, frenetic lousy media, nationalism, and ridiculous inflated flabby ego. Marshall is dead-on correct, for college loan reform is being passed only with a semi-desperate reconciliation move, despite all the screaming need and pain for reform the normal process died long ago in the Senate, had it not been for reconciliation our young people needing help for college would have been brutally screwed. Again.