Corporate Democrats
Here is a quote from an article that appeared on the San Francisco Bay Guardian's web site:
If you wonder why things never change in Washington, look no further than a report released yesterday by Russ Baker's Real News Project (www.realnews.org).I would take issue with the statement that establishment Democrats are "more skeptical of the corporate agenda than Republicans"--I see no evidence of that, and in fact the evidence shows that establishment Democrats are just as much in bed with big business as the Republicans are--but otherwise this article does show that even some of the publications that regularly shill for the Democrats (as the Guardian often does) are starting to show concern about the close relationship between Democrats and corporate interests.
The report documents 25 corporate Democrats -- corporate consultants with strong ties to the Democratic Party leadership inside the beltway.
"Although establishment Democrats are, by and large, still more skeptical of the corporate agenda than Republicans, they have become strikingly less so," Baker writes. "This has led to the creation of a kind of permanent corporate governance structure that is truly bipartisan. Many of the firms employing Democratic operatives have them working side-by-side with Republicans -- often the same Republicans they go up against in political campaigns. In some cases, a so-called conservative Republican and a so-called liberal Democrat are full partners in the same firm."
Post a Comment