This time, it's going to be different

We certainly hope so!

However, the Democrats to not have time to dawdle. Much has to be done and done fast.

Corruption is certainly one of those problems.

But so are the results of unbelievable corruption of the last Congress, like that godawful Medicare Bill, for one, which was nothing but a huge give-away to big pharma and did little for the elderly and disabled, to lower the outrageous prices of drugs.

If Americans have to be the experimental lab rats for Big Pharma, we should not have to go broke doing it.

Two words must become the buzzwords for the next two years: Truth and Accountability.

WorkingForChange-This time, it's going to be different:

WASHINGTON -- This time, it's going to be different.

Whenever a new crowd displaces an old guard, the promise is always the same. The fresh managers swear they understand what the tired bunch they're replacing did wrong and vow to make all things new.

The Democrats who take power in Congress on Thursday have been given an opportunity that has not come their party's way for a half-century: They can remake their own image -- and Congress' -- and they can begin to restore public confidence in government.

While control of the Senate has flip-flopped between the parties since 1980, the House has stayed in one party's hands for long periods. Democrats controlled the House for 40 years after 1954, Republicans for the last 12. The 2006 election marked the first time since that 1954 contest that both Houses switched from the Republicans to the Democrats.

This allows the new Democratic majority, in principle at least, to come in with no commitments to doing business as it was done in the immediate past.