Have Cons ever enacted legislation NOT for their immediate benefit?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

It seems to me that the answer would be no, I can't think of any. But then Im educated at all on pre-2000 legislation. I say Conservative too because I think it is more accurate than Republican. I hate the fact that Republicans claim Lincoln because Lincoln was a freaking liberal. If I woke up tomorrow and the parties were suddenly switched and the extreme right was now the Democratic party and the left was the Republican party, I'd be a Republican.

[LoZoccolo]

1. Man, I was just thinking about this this morning.

My dad told me that whatever the Republicans do, the first thing he thinks is like "OK, what are they trying to do?" Then I started thinking about the same thing you are - what have they actually done that isn't for them strategically, or for their donors...which is pretty much the same thing.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Yep, I was talking it over with my mom

and she basically said the same thing. I think it started with the changes to Medicare that Bush pushed through. She said everything they do has some sort of alternate reason, mostly to help themselves and their base.