The comment provoked a swift but enduring backlash; Representative Barbara Lee, of California, called it "tone-deaf," and Senator Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, called it "totally nuts".
But Ballou, as a Steelers fan and local businessman, may be more representative of the backlash Roethlisberger is likely to face when he returns next week to Pittsburgh for workouts.
Another American economist, Paul Krugmann last week took the cypher of Davos Man and pitted him against a new character called Seattle Man - the individual hosed from the streets there for protesting against the pro-globalisation culture, and representative of the backlash against the smug Washington consensus.
"There's a big potential for backlash," said Representative Marge Roukema, a New Jersey Republican supporting the bipartisan bill.
Is Apple so prodigious an American icon that our elected representatives fear a voter backlash?
She is an American conservative and a scathing young representative of the anti-feminist backlash.
"In Washington, within the U.S. government and Congress, there is a distinct, anti-Korean backlash," Scott Snyder, Korea representative for The Asia Foundation, said here Friday.
These newcomers to the Southeast have sometimes faced a disturbing backlash that is representative of a larger national trend.
Third: Updating the data and reforming the rate structure, while understood as necessary steps, has been postponed by elected representatives for fear of political backlash.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, who led last summer's backlash, said the White House risked losing Congressional support for international economic organizations.
