Let’s pretend that there’s this really troubled Business and a few really influential Congressmen.

Now let’s pretend that the Business really needs a certain provision to be passed in Congress. A provision that would allow it to, oh let’s say… split into two companies so that it could both enjoy a certain protected status AND pass off all of its massive debt to consumers. Something like that. Okay?

Now let’s imagine that the Congressmen in question are doing just fine, donation-wise. As is their party. But they would like a few struggling unknown candidates to get some extra cash so as to shore up their party’s ranks in Congress.

Makes sense, doesn’t it? The Congressmen could never really be tied to the Business, at least not with a direct money trail, which would make them even more free to support that Business’ scheme in Congress.

So let’s say all that happens: the Business supports these candidates they’ve never heard of, the provision would start to make its way through Congress (with the votes of the powerful Congressmen who received, in essence, nothing from the Business), and everyone’s happy. [For the moment, let’s forget the aforementioned consumers. Or the voters. Or a certain weird chick who walks around wearing a blindfold and carrying scales. Forget all of them.]

The thing is, besides the Congressmen and the Business, nobody would ever know about this arrangement. How could they? There’s no law that says that the Congressmen or the Business have to tell anyone about any casual suggestions they may have made concerning certain laws or certain other candidates.

Unless…

Let’s pretend that the Business has made such a colossal hash of things with its mismanagement and its propensity for private jets and high-livin’ that a grand jury comes down on its head, causing the much-desired legislation to get killed and the Congressmen involved to flee like roaches when the lights get turned on. Logic dictates that for this to work, the Business would have to’ve committed said malfeasances at about the same time as they were buying the Congressmen, which would be an amazing confluence of stupidities.

Of course, then we’d know about it.

The moral of the story: If every business was as incompetent as Westar, we’d have a much cleaner government. Write your congressman now to demand a new “Every CEO must have an IQ of less than 85″ law now. The integrity of our democracy is at stake.