After all the long, miserable years of the Bush regime, now someone in the media has finally asked the right question.

My observation is that corporate "sponsorship" makes our politicians wealthy. Let's not forget - our politicians are the ones who made bribery legal by changing it's name to "lobbying."

How else to explain Bush's sudden attack of overwhelming compassion toward illegal immigrants? How else to explain the endless congressional "hearings" that go nowhere? Hoew else to explain the constant efforts to drain any and all money out of public education? How else to explain McCain's agenda to give more and bigger tax breaks to corporations; corporations that manufacture overseas and bring absolutely no money into the American economy - they merely take?

Unfortunately, this greed is not limited to the republicans alone. Senate and House members from both sides are on the same side now - and if you are a working American (and by working, I do not mean CEO), neither party represents you.

Remember that tv ad with Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich beaming sweetly at each other and gazing soulfully into each other's eyes? They aren't kidding. Watch that ad. That's the death knell for what used to be our government. You remember - it was "for the people and by the people."

Not any more.

Now it should read, "for Wal-Mart and by Microsoft."