Oh boy! Republicans elected! Corporations all excited! Send the pols some money so they'll make our profits rise!
The new Republican leaders in the House have received millions of dollars in fresh contributions from banks, health insurers and other major business interests, which are pressing for broad reversals of Democratic policies that affect corporations, according to disclosure records and interviews.
It always sounds like high illegal, monstrously unethical bribery to me, but then I'm a puritanical fan of founders and framers. I just don't think this is what they had in mind.
The impetus behind such largess is simple: Many companies and industry groups hope that House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) and other Republicans will succeed in rolling back Democratic policies they find objectionable, including environmental and Wall Street regulations.
Check the Washington Post for specifics -- for who gets what. Names are named. You'll probably find they're the guys who wouldn't dare go on the campaign trail without their flag pins on display.
