Big, evil industries funded…which party?

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/09/2010 | David Freddoso

[SeekAndFind]

Now that election 2010 is over, let’s go back over to OpenSecrets and look at which evil corporations stole our democracy and bought Congress for the Republicans — the RepubliCorp!

First suspect: the military-industrial complex!

•Defense Contractors: 55% Democrat, 44% Republican ($18 million) Oh, really? Well, then, it must have been Wall Street! That’s it: Wall Street bought Congress for the GOP!

•Securities & Investment: 53% Democrat, 46% Republican ($8.2 million) Oh. Well, even if Wall Street as a whole preferred Democrats, it must have been the real bad guys, those risky Hedge funds and exotic investors…

•Hedge Funds: 53% Democrat, 46% Republican ($6.8 million total)

•Venture Capital: 64% Democrat, 40% Republican ($6.4 million)

•Private Equity: 56% Democrat, 43% Republican ($4.6 million)

Huh. Well, then, it must have been the big health insurers and for-profit hospital corporations! They didn’t want reform! I know because I heard President Obama say so at least 64 times!

•HMO/Health services: 58% Democrats, 40% Republicans ($9.4 million)

•Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: 51% Democrats, 48% Republicans ($10.4 million)

•Medical Supply: 57% Democrats, 42% Republicans ($4.4 million)

•Hospitals/Nursing Homes: 63% Democrat, 36% Republican ($14.9 million)

Huh. Well…then it must have been those evil lobbyists that President Obama has been fighting against ever since he got to Washington! That’s it!

•Lobbyists: 65% Democrat, 34% Republican ($23.5 million)

What? You mean all that time I’ve spent watching Keith Olbermann hasn’t taught me any real facts???? You mean my head is now full of garbage and White House propaganda?

For good measure, here are a few industries that did, in fact, support Republicans (although most of them by narrow margins).

•‘Tonsil Thieves‘ (Dentists): 37% Democrat, 62% Republican ($5.3 million)

•Health professionals: 48% Democrat, 50% Republican ($55 million)

•Credit/Finance: 48% Democrat, 52% Republican ($5.8 million)

•Commercial Banks: 41% Democrat, 59% Republican ($15.4 million)

•Insurance (Health, life and property): 48% Democrat, 52% Republican ($31.2 million)

•Agribusiness: 41% Democrat, 58% Republican ($40 million) The challenges I see ahead for the new GOP House will be (1) reining in Agribusiness subsidies and (2) forcing banks to live without hope of future bailouts. The first is probably the bigger challenge, at least in the short run.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Most business don’t care who they buy just as long as they can be bought. D just happens to be the party in power. Did you check to see what donations were like during the Bush years? Your point would only be valid if the numbers were consistent with those years.

[scooby321]

Wall Street hated Obama, however the Tea Party scares them more.

[ExpatGator]

Thanks for this! It will be used to bludgeon some Regressive Leftists real soon.

[Sergio]

Bookmark.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SeekAndFind. I’m sure they’d have been given waivers under the campaign finance transparency law, if only their preferred candidates had won. We live in a majority conservative country, but conservatives don’t bother to run things most of the time, just their own lives.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is truly corrupt system where you have to bribe the party in power in order to stay in business or get an advantage over other businesses.

[reefdiver]

You could start with the SKANK randi rhodes, miserable, rude,liar, drunk loud mouth

[Matchett-PI]

MORE:

Obama’s Oil Spill
March 31, 2008
Obama says he doesn’t take money from oil companies. We say that’s a little too slick.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_oil_spill.html

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Obama’s Deceptive Anti-Oil Ad: ‘I Don’t Take $ From Oil Companies’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/04/13/obamas-deceptive-anti-oil-ad-i-dont-take-oil-companies
By Warner Todd Huston | April 13, 2008 | 12:02
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Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
By: Erika LovleyMay
5, 2010 05:05 AM EDT
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html

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California’s Prop 23 and the [ PHONY ] “big oil money” campaign – outspent 3 to 1
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/05/californias-prop-23-and-the-big-oil-money-campaign-outspent-3-to-1/#more-27501

10.6 million from “big oil”

31.2 million from “big green”

Yep, that’s some dirty secret alright. But you won’t see this reported on one side news outlets or green blogs.

[Matchett-PI]

“Thanks for this! It will be used to bludgeon some Regressive Leftists real soon.” ~ ExpatGator

bttt

Here’s more ammo for ya:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2624476/posts?page=9#9

[CriticalJ]

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