In the midst of backhandedly congratulating tea partiers, NYT’s David Brooks has this:
Voters are upset about the economy, the debt and the culture of Washington. The Democrats are the party of government and of the status quo. They have done their best to remind people of that. This week, Democratic voters renominated Charles Rangel, the epitome of Washington scandal. Democratic voters in the District of Columbia ousted Mayor Adrian Fenty, one of the nation’s bravest education reformers, and replaced him with an orthodox pol.
But those are black voters, are they not, for whom blood is thicker than — what? common sense? I’d say so, in view of how harmful economic policy always hurts lower– more than higher-income people.
Blithe Spirit 