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Like a petulant 2-year-old, the hyperbolic analyses of the Tea Party's primary victories need a timeout. Political America should quietly listen to a mostly forgotten, gravelly voiced United States senator from Illinois.
The focus on the unorthodox winners in Delaware and New York, and how they might affect the Republicans, obscures the fissures in the Democratic Party. We're left with a dispiriting amalgam: voters who believe that virtually no good can be done by government and voters for whom virtually nothing is good enough.
For both cadres, there is an evil lurking everywhere: compromise. It's a synonym for weakness and a reason to batter and berate an opponent, whether in your party or another.
