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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Coyne who wrote (123424)	1/23/2001 9:31:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

With regard to large money interests funding campaigns and getting their interests attended to before anyone else, both parties do it in spades. I just find the Democrats are in hock to a slightly less scary bunch of interests. What the Republicans really feared about Clinton was that he almost caught the Democrats up to them in fund-raising. But that was before GW Bush. He's the champ, and it's only common sense to believe that the guys who gave him 450 million dollars will want their money's worth. Think of popular bills that benefit ordinary Americans but not the large corporate interests. A patient's bill of rights (with any teeth in it)? Medicare prescription drug coverage (that doesn't give away the store to the large pharmaceuticals)? Affordable health insurance for the 44 million uninsured Americans? Full tax deduction for all health insurance premiums? Campaign finance reform? How about requiring the media conglomerates to give some free time to political candidates in return for their free use of spectrum? Let's just wait and see if the Bush administration thinks any of these initiatives is worth pursuing. I doubt it. Look at the bills they push and ask yourself, who benefits?