Taranto has this to say about Barbara Boxer and the other senators using the Rice hearings as donation bait:
But the bottom line in politics is votes, not profits–and a party that is relentlessly negative and reactionary is likely to keep losing the former.
I don’t know, James. It is beginning to seem to me that money is the real goal for the Democratic Party. As long as these folks keep getting elected themselves, they rake in plenty of money which they can keep in their own personal trust fund for use after they leave office.
Perhaps we’ve been reading them all wrong.
If so, it looks like Dems and Reps have a win-win relationship.
Comment by David Boxenhorn — January 27, 2005 @ 5:40 am
Incumbents, of any party. McCain-Feingold was all about protecting incumbents by preventing anyone else from getting air time.
Didn’t work out too well.
Comment by Bunker — January 27, 2005 @ 5:43 am