Big Business - Quiet Like a Mouse
If you're tired, as I am, of hearing Republicans slammed as being in the pocket of Big Business, then I welcome you to the reason Democrats and Independents have been unable to make a case that resonates in the voter's mind. Long gone are the days of blue collar-white collar, union-non union, poor against the rich issues. Politics is a game of going along to get along, sounding independent as you try to keep your marching orders straight in your mind.
They're all in the same bind, these poor politicos. All taking with one hand, winking, pointing a tremulous finger and making Big Noise about Big Reform, then letting it die in committee. All of them. Every single one.
Committees are great for that, sort of nameless and therefore blameless. Whenever you hear of something voted upon by voice vote or going to committee, you know the fix is in.
It's the way the game is played, the way it has been played in American politics, almost from the beginning. The quietness of the mice is one thing, th…