Democrats & Bain: Execs at Bain have donated more to the Democratic Party than the GOP. Why?

Interesting article by Greenwald. The snippet below doesn't do it justice. Well worth clicking through.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/21/democrats_and_bain_2/singleton/

Published on Monday, May 21, 2012 by Salon.com
Democrats and Bain
Executives at Romney's old private-equity firm have donated more to the Democratic Party than the GOP. Why?
by Glenn Greenwald



We all know that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former firm, is the paragon of capitalist evil, destroying the middle class in order to enrich greedy vulture oligarchs. We also all know that the Democratic Party is the defender of the middle class and the bold adversary of corporate pillaging. That’s why these facts generate so much cognitive dissonance resident Obama and Cory Booker:

Democrats have accepted more political donations than Republicans from executives at Bain Capital, complicating the left’s plan to attack Mitt Romney for his record at the private-equity firm.

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While Romney himself has received more contributions from his former firm than Obama has, “President Obama received a sizable share as well.” More generally, “campaign finance records show that Democrats collect more money from Wall Street than does the GOP.”

Why would these cunning Master of the Universe villains want so robustly to fund a party that is so adverse to their interests? The only coherent answer is that the party which they’re funding is anything but adverse to their interests. From today’s Washington Post, comparing White House visitor logs to lobbyist registration records:

The lobbying industry Obama has vowed to constrain is a regular presence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The records also suggest that lobbyists with personal connections to the White House enjoy the easiest access. . . .

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