by Thomas Frank
* This is not to say that some of these moments don’t deserve all the commentary they got. For example, there was the idiotic parody letter that the Tea Party leader Mark Williams wrote in July 2010 to “Abraham Lincoln” on behalf of the “NAACP,” which had just called on Tea Party chapters to distance themselves from racist commentary. It was so profoundly stupid that I’m not even going to try to summarize it here. Read it for yourself at http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201007150012.
* One of the elements distinguishing the two parties these days, Gallup pointed out, is their attitude toward “compromise.” In a poll conducted in late 2010, Republican voters, on average, agreed that it was “more important for political leaders to stick to their beliefs even if little gets done.” Democratic voters, on the other hand, thought it was “more important for political leaders to compromise in order to get things done.” Read more at http://www.gallup.com/poll/144359/Democrats-Republicans-Differ-Views-Compromise.aspx.
