Business Sees Gain in GOP Takeover

Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century.

MBNA Corp., the credit card behemoth and fifth-largest contributor to Bush's two presidential campaigns, is among those on the verge of prevailing in an eight-year fight to curtail personal bankruptcies. Exxon Mobil Corp. and others are close to winning the right to drill for oil in Alaska's wildlife refuge, which they have tried to pass for better than a decade. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., another big contributor to Bush and the GOP, and other big companies recently won long-sought protections from class-action lawsuits.

Republicans have pursued such issues for much of the past decade, asserting that free market policies are the smartest way to grow the economy. But now it appears they finally have the legislative muscle to push some of their agenda through Congress and onto the desk of a president eager to sign pro-business measures into law. The chief reason is Bush's victory in 2004 and GOP gains in Congress, especially in the Senate, where much of corporate America's agenda has bogged down in recent years, according to Republicans and Democrats.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3796-2005Mar26.html

The same company I keep receiving blank checks to spend money I don't have available. May they rot in hell.

I get those at least once a week. To send unsolicited checks that could be intercepted by others should be a crime. Then I need to take extra time to shred the damn things!

Back to the early 1900s we go. Millions of Americans happily voted for their own demotion back to a life of poverty, sickness, and hopelessness. One showed me his new "W" sticker a few weeks ago. He was so proud, even though he is going broke with his business - a business that flourished up until 2002. Can these people not connect dots?????

Give to world corporatists via anti-worker; anti-consumer; anti-environment legislation. Bush just knows that's what Jesus would do.

the corporate class is eagerly waging war on the workers. They are using the smokescreen of Christian values and patriotism to impoverism working Americans to their benefit.

the right-wing nutjobs say that liberals are the ones waging class warfare, because we are supposedly 'jealous of the rich'.

"As recent Senate votes on bankruptcy and class-action lawsuits showed, corporations rely on a number of Democrats in the House and Senate and continue to contribute generously to both parties. But in the 2004 elections, Republicans received 66 percent of corporate political action committee (PAC) money, which reflects a trend of businesses tilting support toward the GOP over the last decade. In 1993-94, business PACs gave slightly more to Democrats."


Too bad they don't value their integrity (and the well-being of their constituents) more than their bank accounts.

the WashPost certainly is on top of this story ...... even a had a researcher help out ... but, no history lesson learned included ...

... meanwhile the times ache for revival of the muckrakers ...

DUH!

...for Democrats to realize that this is the only real agenda of the Republican party. All the social issues, pandering to nationalism etc. are just smokescreen hiding a corporate-internationalist, neo-liberal agenda.

When will the right-wingers realize they're getting screwed?

on credit cards and then declare bankruptcy before the new law takes effect.

Gee, what if millions of people did it?
:evilgrin:

American's don't have to worry. The "Rest of the World" already has an unofficial "boycott" on anything American. We're quite aware that the greatest supporter of "Red State" Gi's is Corporate America. They go "Hand in Hand". One dies, the other thinks they're making money! If only they knew!!!!

that requires us to spend money with wal-mart, schwab, et. al., then we can starve the beast.

This is from the story:


"These are not real high-profile, sexy issues like the war or Social Security, but these are issues that have huge economic consequences," said Charles R. Black Jr., a GOP lobbyist and one of the president's top fundraisers. "And there is more to come on that score."

We've been telling them this for YEARS!