Reply #7: Don't be so sure. With the extreme excesses of corporate power

[RaleighNCDUer]

of the past couple decades there is bound to be a reaction -- having a solid corporatist added to a corporate friendly court will forestall any move to revisit the decision of 130 years ago that 'corporations are persons'. A change in that ruling would literally overthrow the corporate world, and they must prevent that at all costs. We are looking like previous eras where corporations controlled the governments -- the British East India Company running the British Empire; the Hanseatic League wielding more power than the governments of the nations it thrived in; and most recently the corporatist fascism of the first half of the last century.

The corporate world is not in Bush's pocket -- Bush is in the corporate world's pocket, or at least the pocket of certain major corporate entities.

And when you think about it, unbridled corporate power is the greatest enemy that business can have -- why do you think Teddy Roosevelt was so aggressive is busting the monopolies of his day? Because they were bad for business. Look at Enron. Worldcom. Look at Abramoff.

Maybe you're too close to the trees to see the forest.