Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to Give it up, Steve.

OK, I can concede that the Democrats received more money from Wall Street bankers in the form of contributions...
Mary Anne — (archived)

...but isn't the problem a lack of oversight? And isn't that an executive function? And haven't the recent Republican administrations and Congresses been against regulation?

I mean, if you like a Senator's position on reproductive choice, or gay marriage, or any one of a number of other things, you may give money to him or her for that reason. It's no stretch for me to believe that well-paid brokers and bankers who do business on Wall Street would support a number of socially liberal positions that Democrats would hold.

Having hedged your bets by giving the Democrats money in support of the liberal social agenda, you can then turn around and make that money by doing business in a way that would have been impossible with a government less prone to think of regulations as the Tools of Satan.

I don't think that anyone's hands are entirely clean here. It still looks like Monopoly crossed with Katrina to me. If a government thinks that government is bad, it will do its best to fulfill that expectation. The Republicans believe that government is bad, and they have been in charge.

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