Frogs for Snakes

According to So Damn Much Money, a chronical of the rise of lobbying in D.C. and the parallel increase in the power of money, the politician’s motto is (or ought to be) “When it rains, dance.”  Meaning, whenever something good happens claim credit.

Our politicians are doing that now related to movement on the previously stalled bill to overhaul financial regulation.  Acording to a N.Y. Times article:

“Republicans said that they had forced Democrats back to the bargaining table to negotiate a bipartisan accord, while Democrats said that Republicans were hastily abandoning their opposition in fear of a public outcry.”

The parties’ posings are ex-post-facto rain dances, I suspect. What’s really happening is that lawmakers are feeling the public’s outrage at the looting of the economy by the investment houses and the cowardice keeping our government from doing anything about it. And about time.