The NRCC is looking broke these days, and the NRSC isn't doing well either. I have to believe that GOP fundraising woes actually will turn around at some point -- or else that we'll see large pseudo-independent expenditures on behalf of Republican candidates -- since the stakes are just too high for corporate America to let its allies go begging just because they're awful and obsessively focused on trivia. So far, though, things look really terrible for them.
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27 Sep 2007 08:19 am
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Has their fund raising dropped, or have their expense increased?
Corporate America was never wedded to only one political party--they're on the side of the winners. If one set of allies goes begging they just give to their other allies, the Democrats.
Health care industry money, for example, is wasted on loser Republicans when the health-care aces are all in the hands of the Democrats--and look what they've gotten already: no single-payer system on the table, but a big fat giveaway to the insurance industry in all of the Democrats' "serious, responsible" proposals. Who need Republicans?
Is the Republican party really the ally of corporate America?
I know they want to be, and try to be, but they often screw it up. They do a good job looking after the interests of rich individuals, but that's easy. You can screw everyone else to an unlimited extent while helping the rich. Corporations actually need poor and middle class people to be able to buy things. That gets tricky.
Do they really want to pony up the big bucks for a load of good intentions, or do they fondly remember Bill Clinton?
In case you haven't noticed, Matthew, business has responded to the collapse of the Republicans by purchasing the Democrats.
That's business.
And no, the Republicans are not "allies" of business. They are shills. No longer being useful, they are being downsized and outsourced.
That's also business.
since the stakes are just too high for corporate America to let its allies go begging just because they're awful and obsessively focused on trivia.
Maybe they switched allies. It's not in their interests, either, for the US to devolve into some sort of Southern-flavored banana republic.
Senator Joe Biden (D-MBIA)
Nuff said.
Senator Joe Biden (D-MBIA)
Nuff siad.
Corporate America has woken up to the fact that corrupt, idiot Republicans are bad for the country.
Unfortunately, Corporate America is unlikely to recognize that Corporate America is bad for the country.
So, instead of the idealistic reformers we need, we will get Hillary & Co., Hillary, who has carefully positioned herself as the candidate of the plutocracy, the Democrat "we can work with".
And no, the Republicans are not "allies" of business. They are shills. No longer being useful, they are being downsized and outsourced.
That's also business.
*sniff*
There's something almost poetic about that.
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Heads in the Sand
Forget about the Republicans, revisit the bankruptcy bill in the real world. The air is continuing to leak out of our economy. Is the U.S. dollar the new Schrute Buck?
Posted by Madison Guy | September 27, 2007 8:31 AM