Democrats Pull in the Reins on Their Own Anti-trust Agression

Susie Madrak posted an article yesterday on the liberal blog Crooks and Liars criticizing Democratic officials in the Obama camp for wanting to slow aggressive anti-trust actions being made by the Justice Department. The Department's chief, Christine A. Varney, a fellow Democrat, has been pressing an array of companies - phone, cable, agriculture, airlines - on anti-trust issues. What her detractors fear, Madrak says, is the loss of big business's campaign contributions that help win Democratic votes. Ms. Madrak believes the politicians critical of Varney would be more apt to try appealing to voters.
I trust that Susie may know what she's getting at with her own criticism, as she's been a journalist for 15 years, but she certainly leaves us to read a lot into it for ourselves. I don't doubt, with the polar sort of blog that she writes, that Ms. Madrak expects her readers to be the type to instantly agree and see her point without her actually expanding upon it. I have a problem with this idea fundamentally, but I also have a problem or two with what she's saying in this particular blog.
Surely she's been in journalism long enough to know what I, as a simpleton college student, know: the party is likely to put itself first. If the Democratic party needs the support of big business to keep in power, it will draw the line for how hard Christine Varney can push AT&T and Verizon. Keeping itself in a tenable position is the foremost concern. Once that's relatively secure, the good of the people can come into play. Sure, in a perfect world, we, the people, would come first, and that's what Ms. Madrak and every liberal wishes for - a perfect world. But, sadly, the world is not perfect, and the party must compromise some of its standing with both big business and the American people to maintain stability.
Ms. Madrak's concern, therefore, is probably too idealistic to take seriously unless the whole system is overhauled. If there's one thing we can take from this article, it's that she highlighted an important issue, even if her critique seems naive.