For decades now, I've been hearing conservatives say that we ought to have successful business people running our governments.  Now we're seeing the flaw in that proposition.  Successful business people have developed too many self-interests to mesh with being servants of the public.  In the end, they'd rather spend more time with their money.

And then there was always the obvious flaw:  if these people had a yen to perform public service, the opportunity was always open to them.  But they preferred to go for self-enrichment.  After a long career of raising your own boat, why would you be particularly good at raising other peoples'?