Friday, October 1, 2010

"compromise is the lubricant of American politics."

So says retiring Senator Byron Dorgan.
Bill Schneider thinks Tea Party supporters are against compromise: "They are anti-politics. They believe that politics is essentially corrupt — that deal making and compromise are an abandonment of principle." As we've discussed in class, this will make managing the Republican Conference in the House and Senate more difficult than it normally is. It'll be a wild ride regardless.