What money can't buy for Congress

Of course, the party misses not receiving enough campaign donations, but its lack of vision and leadership are the real handicaps

A former Congress member of Parliament, the son of an old friend of mine, telephoned me some time ago. He was complaining about the way the party was being run (not competently and without any strategy) and the conversation turned to his own losses. He had invested a lot of his money contesting and had lost. He did not specifically mind the losing so much as the fact that it all seemed to be a wasted effort, and to no avail, given that the party wasn’t competitive. He would be circumspect about raising, and spending, those sorts of sums again