No matter how soothing the White House overtures to business leaders sounded this week, an inconvenient fact remains: Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight.Take it all with a huge grain of sea salt.But like a success inhibitor injected into the body politic, Obama's policies have only served to suppress growth, punish ambition and discourage profit-maximizers. He has railed against "fat cats" on Wall Street while protecting his favored financial indus...