In all honesty I've always found the GC/BD chummyness a might puzzling.
I'm not an ace guru on Kusarian political wackyness or anything, but my impression was that the GC are lookin to get a fair shake (or more) of ladyish representation within society whilst the Dragons are whiling away their days looking to give the boot to Samara/The current political machine and return to the days of yore.
Said days of yore believing that the best sentence that involved a woman included the words barefoot and kitchen.
I'm more than eager to be informed either one way or the other, as it's always been a point of some confusion for me.