Jonah Goldberg explains why Wall Street gives twice the amount of filthy political lucre to Democrats as it does to Republicans:
Big business is not "right wing," it's vampiric. It will pursue any opportunity to make a big profit at little risk.
Getting in bed with politicians is increasingly the safest investment for these "crony capitalists." But only if the politicians can actually deliver.But the tide is turning, Democrat fortunes are falling, and Wall Street now pays almost half of its political bribes to Republicans in anticipation of the new power they will wield come November.
The political failures of the Obama White House have translated into business failures for firms more eager to make money off taxpayers instead of consumers.
That's good news. The bad news will be if the Republicans once again opt to be the cheap dates of big business. For years, the GOP defended big business in the spirit of free enterprise while businesses never showed much interest in the principle themselves.
Now that their bet on the Democrats has crapped out, it'd be nice if they stopped trying to game the system and focused instead on satisfying the consumer.That's what I'm talking about. Can the Republicans stay on the straight and narrow? The GOP has actually grown a pair since Obama and the Pelosicrats handed their asses to them in 2008, and they seem to have learned their lesson about flirting with big government.
If they regain some power, will they stay true to their new-found, small-government, free-market principles? A noisy tea party that hounds them just as it hounds dirty dog democrats will help them keep their minds right.
