【单选题】

Campaigns have become so expensive, and the politicians must spend so much of their time raising money, that neither the candidate nor the lobbyists have time for the old-fashioned schmoozing that was once the hallmark of the lobbying trade. It’s all very businesslike now for both sides. For the politicians, the challenge is how to raise the most money in the least amount of time. For the lobbyists, the challenge is to know which politicians to shower with money in order to get maximum results.

Moderate politics, a willingness to study issues and seek workable compromise, is no longer cost-effective. The politicians who send out fund-raising letters promising to give each issue careful study won’t raise a dime.
But if that politician targets those who are known to favor a certain issue and he lets that group know he will champion their cause no matter who opposes it, the money rolls in. The amount he can raise depends on how sharply he can draw a contrast between those who favor an issue and those who oppose it.
There are sincere people on every side of every issue, but one reason thatCongress continues to debate and vote on so many of the same issues over and over—like gun control and abortion—is that such issues bring in money to both sides. Liberals who favor gun control rail at the antics of the well-financed gun lobby, but in truth they welcome the endless debate over guns because it is a proven way to raise money from their supporters, just as the pro-gun lobby is a ready source of campaign cash for pro-gun forces. The debates over the perennials, as insiders call them, have little impact on the country, since they usually bring little or no change in the laws.But they are not really about the country’s business; they are about the business of the members themselves and their own survival.
What is remarkable about the process is that when members have to do it, they can put the partisan games aside and do what is necessary. In the weeks before the September 11 attack, the Senate had been in a nasty partisan fight over "who lost the big surpluses" that had been projected earlier in the year.
Yet, in the week after the attack, the House and Senate authorized forty billion dollars in disaster relief and passed the legislation by a unanimous vote.
Afterward, I asked the SenateDemocratic leader TomDaschle how the country could afford to spend so much in light of all the earlier concern about who had lost the surplus.
"Well," he said, "I think the question is,Can we afford not to \
To get big money a politician shouldA．make no distinction between enemies and friends.
B．promise to give each important issue due attention.
C．send out as many fun-raising letters as possible.
D．get the issue his patron has in mind addresseD、