Corporations going bullish on Democrats

It appears corporate America has more faith than I do in the integrity of the electoral process. There's been a flurry of last minute donations to the Democratic Party. Or maybe they're just hedging their bets as usual. God knows they have plenty of windfall profits to shower on both parties. Still it's significant.

For the first nine months of the year, for example, Pfizer’s political action committee had given 67 percent of contributions to Republican candidates. But October ushered in a sudden change of fortune, according to disclosure reports, and Democrats received 59 percent of the Pfizer contributions.

I expect they want to protect their interests in the deeply flawed Medicare "reform" bill. Meanwhile, Michael van der Galien at the Moderate Voice wonders, "how far corporate donations influence policies and, more importantly, wonder about in how far corporations should be able to influence policies. Sometimes I cannot help but think that the American fund raiser system has a tendency to make politicians the puppets of big corporations."
This is what I left in comments.

You just noticed Michael? The corporatocracy is the greatest threat to our Republic going and it has been for decades now. That being said, it's much too late to do anything about it in this round. The only short term solution is to get the Democratic party back into power in the House, and one would hope also the Senate, right now.

Starting on Nov 8, we can start holding the Dems feet to the fire for selling us out to corporate interests. At least with them, there's a chance, albeit a slim one, they'll listen. If not, my strategy for 08 is going to be a push to dump every blessed incumbent with more than two terms, out of office. I don't care what party they represent.

We need to prove to the Dems we can elect them, but more importantly we need to let them know we can also kick them out. That's the only way I see to fix what's broken in the system.