[Dianna]

You're right, there may have been tons of dirty money there.

But there also were a lot of people (individuals and businesses) who worried about the danger of a Gore Administration. If he had had the ability to implement his environmental policy, business would have been sunk. That's a big motivator.

Do you see evidence that the campaign cash has pointed Bush in any particular direction? If he were to accept money from business and implement pro-business policy, we can easily say that it is a proper pro- business/conservative stance. Now if he accepted a bunch of money from the NEA, and then churned out this education bill, that would be a much stronger position.

[Buckeroo]

I am just a little guy out here in the wasteland of our country; a once proud, nation that demonstrated leadership to the world wherein communism was an affluent device to capture your imagination. To some measure, communism is dead.

Now my country is based upon how much political clout there is to screw the good guys. Sounds like communism to me.