Just last week Senator Daschle and his liberal coalition of Democrats with the support two liberal Republicans and one Independent killed the repealing of the Estate Tax permanently.
Logic 101. Lobbyists and special interest groups are accused of buying access to government power. They do it by donating both soft and hard money and who knows what other back-room deals. More important, it's the politicians that put up for sale access to government power in the first place.
Do politicians trade or buy votes among themselves? How much did Jeffords gain by leaving the republican party? Did certain democrats pay him to flee the republican party? Did certain republicans pay him to not become a democrat?
Who actually thinks that voting for the lesser of two evils will beget something other than more evil?