Big Corporate Donations to political candidates have made reform of the political fund raising process impossible.  Corporate Welfare has grown under a Republican Congress that promised less government.  The defense budget wastes Billions of dollars.  Public Cynicism festers.

What is Washington's reaction?

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has prevented a floor vote on a campaign finance reform bill that would probably work. He has rideculed those who would try to take the power away from special interests.

John McCain (R-Ariz) says: "We who are currently privileged to hold office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American Public life. It is we who have squandered the public trust. We, who have time and again in public view, placed our personal or partisan interests before the national interest, earning the public's contempt with our poll driven policies, our phony posturing, the lies we call spin and the damage control we substitute for progress."

In an interview, McCain said, "One thing the Republican promised the American people, ....that we'd stop pork barral spending...Did you notice that pork barral spending has dramatically increased under a Republican controlled Congress?"

When the Republicans insist on weaning single moms off welfare, but not Archer Daniels Midland (Large Corporation which receives Government Subsidies), they betray the people who sent them to Congress to make government leaner and better.

The current Democratic administration over the last six years has done more for reducing the size of government than any Republican or Democratic administration has done in the last thirty years. They have also been vilified by the Republican's.

If a political party can't deliver on their promise of a smaller, better government, why support them.   It might be a good idea to find someone else who can and will deliver on their promises.  The question is Who?