Yes, both the Dems and the Repubs are too much in bed with big corporations, including the oil, coal, timber, and mining industries. But the Dubya administration is peculiarly anti-science and anti-conservation of any sort.

More importantly, had the Democrats taken contol of either house of Congress and/or the White House, real election (voter rights) reform would have had a good shot at passing. A bill requiring a paper trail for e-voting machines was introduced by Russ Holt a couple of years ago and it had over 50% -- bipartisan -- support, but the Repub leaders of the House and Senate kept the bill from being brought to the floor for a vote/

I fear that with the Republicans -- their extreme neo-con right wing, to be specific -- in control of all three branches of our government plus most of the radio and TV media, we are pretty close to being a one-party government. If/when that state of affairs fully materializes, democracy is dead.