Bobert, I think you are being a bit confrontational when there is no reason to be. You have a dangerous (IMO) tendency to speak in absolutist terms, and use far too much hyperbole when expressing your opinions.

Reread my post. I acknowledged that the prescription drug industry campaign donations, like most all of the big bucks campaign donors, now give the majority of their campaign contributions to the Republicans. But not all of it, and therein lies the key to how these industries (the energy industries do this too) continue to get away with buying off our government. They own the Republican Party, and strategically manipulate enough of the key Democrats (like Kennedy on health care issues), to ensure their agenda is the one that wins hands down, every time. To not acknowledge that, just because you like to demonize the Republicans and view them two dimensionally, as if they were solely responsible for all evil in the world, is a dangerous argument to make, and plays right into their hands. It makes the DougR and NicoleCs of this world seem credible, and their canned and spoon fed arguments seem plausible to the majority of people who are, largely by their own choice, blissfully ignorant to how the system works against them.