> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus at accessone.com>
>
> >Don't you mean their funders? When was the last time the Republicrats did
> >anything to seriously piss off their big sponsors?
>
> How about Clinton passing the ergonomic standards over the howls of protest
> of big business and 90% of Dems voting against big business in voting to
> uphold them?
>
> I never maintain that Dems don't bend to corporate pressure and that a swing
> vote of conservative Dems are often at the call of business, but the vast
> majority of Dems vote on issues like ergonomics in ways that just don't fit
> the simplistic Republicrat analysis.
>
> What bothers me most about all that rhetoric is that it seems like an excuse
> for a lot of folks just not to think seriously about politics.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
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Go live in DC for 20+ years and you'll eat those words young man! Passing those standards was going to create a nice market for litigation and thus was in the interests of some of the Dems biggest contributors.
Ian