Reply #22: and let's not forget the so called "mainstream" Dems

[depakid]

who I submit- are even WORSE, voting for Gonzales being only latest example.

Whatever rationalizations they may give, won't change the fact that they've been more than complicit in all that's happened.

History will probably more correctly view them as cowards- because that's EXACTLY what they are- and it's why when they "choose their battles," so many people don't believe in them. Who want's to follow cowards?

Getting back to Vioxx- and other phamaceuticals- guess who controlled Congress in 1992 when the Prescription Drug User Fee Act- the "expidited process" that brought you all vioxx and phen-fen was passed?

Guess who was president when the FDA gave Phamaceutical companies the authorization to pollute the public airwaves with misleading ads about Celebrex, Paxil and whatever else lined their pockets at your expense?

I'm sorry, but this isn't a 2 party partisan issue. This is a matter of honesty and integrity. It's a matter of courage. It's a matter of standing up and doing what's right for a freakin' change.

Granted, Republicans are stupid. That's a given. Witness Bill Thomas (R- California) statements about women and social security on "Meet the Press" last Sunday. The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee obviously hasn't read word one about gender difference in retirement. Not word one.

Democrats, on the other hand, are smarter than that- and in my mind, that makes them even more culpable- they sell out their constituents- they take the money (or "prestige") and turn the other way or maybe they cower in the face of ignorant bullies. Who can say why they do it?

All we can say- all we can see, are the outcomes.