After promising to pass a comprehensive Lok Pal bill to get Anna Hazare to break his fast against corruption the Congress is refusing to honor any demand. Why is the Congress not worried about being labeled as dishonorable liars? Because, one, they know that people are already convinced of that and, second, the huge mass of illiterate people, their " vote bank ", could not care. So what are they after? Last year the country was convulsed with the exposure of 2 scams. The opposition wanted a Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Telecom scam but the Congress kept refusing. The entire session of Parliament was wasted but the Congress got what it wanted. By being obdurate they managed to keep the attention firmly on the DMK in Tamil Nadu and protected the Delhi government which was implicated in the Commonwealth Games Scam. True, they were trounced in Tamil Nadu elections but they have protected Delhi and the wealth earned from the CWG scam. The stupid opposition were taken for suckers. This time they are playing the same type of game. They have demanded that the Prime Minister and the judiciary will be outside the ambit of the Lok Pal, deliberately making aggressive statements about how this will create a parallel power structure which is unconscionable. What they are really after is not to lose control of the police and the CBI. Bofors has taught them that no matter what the extent of the crime you will escape justice if you control the investigating agencies. Note how the Police Commissioner has denied beating people which was caught on camera. The Ndrangheta are a bunch of amateurs, these guys are masters.