Coming from the corporate world, my sense is that business leaders support the party in power when things are going well, and the opposition party when things aren’t going so well. The motivation is purely profit driven, not philosophical.

So if my theory is true, why are business leaders thinking things aren’t going well when the stock market is hitting record highs?

Could be that corporate profitability and share prices aren’t really linked as tightly as some would think. The crazy days of IPOs and executive stock options creating overnight zillionaires is over for this cycle, and at the same time, access to debt funding is more difficult with all the whacks the financial industry is taking with the mortgage fiasco.

So to keep your company going and make your bonus, you actually need to make a profit so you can fund your business from operations. That’s hard work. So hard that it must be someone else’s fault that the economy is in this situation.

Must be the guys in charge in Washington.

Throw the bums out.