John, stop putting words in people's mouths. The poll asks whether he's acting in what he thinks are the best interests of the nation - but you are inventing out of nothing the claim that the only alternative is his 'own' interests. That oversimplifies and distorts the issue of what his 'real' agenda is. It's not some simple cash in his pocket agenda.
This board seems to have some really sharp members, and it's good to see that two thirds recognize that his agenda is not putting what's best for the nation first.
Our nation has become a corporatocracy, with the republican party hired hands, their obligations to recruit enough votes with sophisticated marketing, financial dominance, pandering to key groups who will not object to the corporate agenda such as the religious right, to get power. Bush does that, as does most of the modern republican party's leaders.
All you need to understand this is to look at what their absolute top domestic priorities were, from the tax borrowing for the wealthy, to the hundreds of billions of windfall profit medicare drug bill not allowing the government to negotiate prices, to the energy industry subsidy bill giving tens of billions to that industry, to the bankruptcy reform bill.
Take that last one - it was literally written by the credit card financial industry, and every fair analaysis I've seen of it says its sole purpose is to put more money in the pockets of those companies, at the expense of some of the most desperate citizens; most bankrupties are the result of devastating medical bills.
This board seems to have some really sharp members, and it's good to see that two thirds recognize that his agenda is not putting what's best for the nation first.
Our nation has become a corporatocracy, with the republican party hired hands, their obligations to recruit enough votes with sophisticated marketing, financial dominance, pandering to key groups who will not object to the corporate agenda such as the religious right, to get power. Bush does that, as does most of the modern republican party's leaders.
All you need to understand this is to look at what their absolute top domestic priorities were, from the tax borrowing for the wealthy, to the hundreds of billions of windfall profit medicare drug bill not allowing the government to negotiate prices, to the energy industry subsidy bill giving tens of billions to that industry, to the bankruptcy reform bill.
Take that last one - it was literally written by the credit card financial industry, and every fair analaysis I've seen of it says its sole purpose is to put more money in the pockets of those companies, at the expense of some of the most desperate citizens; most bankrupties are the result of devastating medical bills.
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