Originally posted by caltour2:
The initiative was a huge success; corporate lobbyists gave huge amounts of money to Republican candidates, and Republicans gained control of Congress for the first time in decades.
It sounds good, but it's BS in reality. At best it's backward logic. Last time I checked each member of Congress was an elected official voted into their elected office by the people within each congressional district. So how exactly do the evil corporations control the masses since that's the underlying theory here? Last I checked I haven't gotten any bribes by corporate America asking me to vote for a certain representative.   If anything, Republicans may have botched some things up via their relationships with lobbyists after the people voted them into office. However, I would submit that, as a general rule, power corrupts, and this problem is no more unique or common with Republicans than Democrats. Personally, I have little respect for any of our elected officials, as they all favor big gov't in one way or another, which I am very much against no matter what the differing priorities are when it comes to spending my money.
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