Posted by jiml60 on 10/25/2010 1:01:00 PM (view original):
Plus Nick did comment on the Nader reference, seems you wanted to get your naive view of political spending out there though.
1 He only mentioned Nader after I called him on it.
2 I heard Thom Hartman talking about the topic of spending today. He mentioned that companies involved in Coal and Oil are donating money to Republicans who do not believe in man made global warming. He made it sound like some kind of criminal conspiracy.
If you were an oil company who would you give money to? You would give it to candidates who are not trying to put you out of business. Seems logical.
Congressman are being followed around all the time. Sometimes they get nailed for fraud. There seems to be no example of a member of congress changing their beliefs for donations. They vote for what they believe, and the people who that helps donate.
The idea that everyone is corrupt and will do anything for money is just paranoid negativism.