"I was cleared, and it would be nice to have your job back, but politics doesn't work that way," he said.

And anyway, politics works best when both sides come away with something to cheer about.

"Then it seemed like politics were working against us, too."

But I didn't want to go through life without knowing how business and politics worked.

Consider the way Democratic politics has worked for most of the last 40 years.

Their crusade was a lesson in how politics can work.

Well we can agree on one thing anyway - politics does work in cycles.

That is why politics and democracy are simply not working there.

Congressional staff members believe there are at least two ways the politics might work.

Just how well all this careful politics will work is, of course, still a question.