Drum on "Equitable Subrogation"
Wonk's wonk Kevin Drum on the GOP's latest team-up with big corporations to squash the little guy.
Wonk's wonk Kevin Drum on the GOP's latest team-up with big corporations to squash the little guy.
posted by Winston Smith at
2:07 PM
6 Comments:
This is the kind of issue Democrats should concern themselves with, instead of the current chickenspit.
Like corruption and corporate influence, domestic spying, and unjust wars?
Not that the insurance thing doesn't seem important, but...
How's it workin' for ya so far?
Even tho the Abramoff web includes more Republicans, there's enough Democrats involved to prevent a full-court press. Nobody wants this one.
As for the other two, go for it. I think the spying's a loser, and there won't be a do-over on Iraq. Carping post hoc is unproductive, and there was already a plebecite on it in 2004.
Dude, be serious. By now you've got to realize that there's nothing wrong with taking donations from American Indian tribes.
Though the MSM is trying hard to spin this into a bi-partisan scandal, it's only Republicans who took money from Abramoff, only Republicans who took money for favors, and only Republicans who have institutionalized corruption in the form of a "K Street project."
Will the Dems win this battle politically? No. They never win politically. They're not slick enough.
But that doesn't mean they aren't right.
No, the corrupt GOPers are wrong.
Time will tell how much the Dems want this. There have been many issues over the years where I wondered why one side didn't hit them harder. Most times, it was because of their own dirty hands.
The Dems do have dirty hands when trying to coddle corporate interests in order to keep the campaign cash coming. Witness the bankruptcy bill written by and for credit card companies.
Many of the Washington Dems have become so blissful suckling on the business teat that they have failed to connect that with the melting away of their popular base.
They've also failed to grasp that Howard Dean showed them the way out of their bind by raising piles of small-dollar contributions on the internet. Some of them (e.g. Joe Biden, D-MBNA) may have to go before the party can rejoin its natural constituency, the middle class.
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