Chris Bowers here at MyDD along with other progressive bloggers write with conviction regarding their concerns with how a Clinton Presidency may affect policies that are important to them.  This week, there were two events that illustrate the reality that politicians don't always behave in ways that progressive conventional wisdom suggests they might.

On Monday, a bill that would have made it easier to import cheaper legal prescription medicine into the US lost in the Senate by a vote of 49-40.  The only presidential candidate from the Senate who voted was Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York Democrat, who favored easing the importation of less-costly drugs.

On Friday, the Washington Post disclosed that the hedge fund that employed John Edwards markedly expanded its sub-prime lending business while he worked there, becoming a major player in the high-risk mortgage sector Edwards himself has pilloried in his presidential campaign.