The Sound and Fury of Corporate America (Signifying Nothing?)

My favorite show at the moment is watching Sen. Mitch McConnell play Big Daddy to those rebellious titans of corporate America.

Recently, the U.S. Senate minority leader gave them a tongue lashing: “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics.” Otherwise, he warned, they’d face “serious consequences.”

Ooh. Scary. It’s like the old man threatening to take away the car keys after the teenager has violated curfew.

What got under McConnell’s skin was that his favorite constituent—Big Business—protested Georgia’s controversial new voting law that Democrats allege suppresses minority voting. CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Airlines ...