Reply #2: IN many respects, the OP is dead on

[Vinnie From Indy]

The Bush regime did the bidding of our corporate overlords using fear as a justification for basically doing whatever the hell they wanted regardless of the law or basic human decency. The Obama Admin. appears to also be a one trick pony. They do the bidding of our corporate overlords by talking a progressive game publicly and then working like hell to defeat anything really meaningful and progressive from becoming law. Banking stocks went up just as the healthcare stocks went up after passage of a so-called "progressive" bill.

I predict that as the financial fortunes of Americans continues to fall, enough Americans may come to understand that both parties have been acquired and assimilated by business interests and a tiny, unbelievably wealthy elite and begin to fight back.