Quotes from the cited article, italics added:

... the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent nearly $3 million a week ... placing a political bet ... losing battles ... how well the gamble has paid off ... The business lobby ... has also struggled to pick winners ... has had success in blocking ... shaping the final bills to the group's liking ... the Chamber has helped stall ... greater disclosure of political spending by corporations.

"They have in fact sought to defend and act from the principles which they believe in," said Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and a longtime GOP lobbyist. "I think that's gutsy -- win, lose or draw. . . . My gosh, we are not here to wind up in the Rose Garden as trees and shrubs for signing ceremonies of legislation that we oppose."

What guts. What bravery. What leadership. What rare honesty and straight shooting from those willing to sacrifice their own occupational security to tell it like it is, to take such heroic chances in the cruel competitive world of winning and losing.

So many lessons to be learned about true capitalism from the Chamber of Commerce. Where to start? Let's see, why do the same ones keep winning? Right, somehow they're endowed with perpetual superior performance over all the others due to free markets.

There must be a parable about the right's propaganda. Perhaps "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf"?