Corporate board members, financial advisers, and other professionals are bound by a principle called "fiduciary duty," in which they are required to act in the best interests of the clients or companies they are serving.
As an American citizen, I would think--or at least hope--that elected government representatives would be bound by a similar principle--that they would put the country's interests firsts, even if those interests conflicted with their personal desire to gain more power or get re-elected.
Dan Gross, however, who has covered Washington for two decades, thinks that this principle--if it ever existed--has been thrown out the window.
Basically, Dan argues, Republicans are doing everything they can to ensure that the economy remains a mess when it comes time for the 2012 election. The Republican hope here, Dan explains, is that Americans will vote with their wallets in 2012--and, in so doing, vote more Democrats out of office.
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