Bush was horrible, but Gore would have been worse

[blumpkin blownuts]

A pharmaceutical company essentially bribes the FDA to let it through, and the company crosses its fingers.

i'll grant you this. the fda are crooks, so are the usda, doi and many other federal bodies
but when it comes down to it, the individuals responsible are just regular people, albeit with a higher-than-average inclination towards exploitation. just imagine how crooked and gamed the system would be if there was no regulation whatsoever...

the solution is to regulate the regulators, by filtering out special interests from the system of checks and balances