The following is from the blog of the Washington Post's Tom Weigel:
"Tom Coburn's plea for civility
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)'s much-discussed friendship with Barack Obama is, all of a sudden, a little harder to attribute to the closeness of their desks in the Senate. Matt Laslo reports on a town hall meeting Coburn held in Oklahoma:
While discussing his policy disagreements with Pelosi Coburn said “she’s a nice lady,” which brought hisses and hoots from the crowd. But Coburn flatly rejected the crowd's animosity towards the liberal Speaker.
[Come on now. She is nice – how many of you all have met her? She’s a nice person,] Coburn said as he went on to lecture the crowd about civility. Coburn also cautioned his crowd not to [catch yourself being biased by Fox News that somebody is no good.]
He's not the first Republican to go there.
Way back in August, at the start of the "town hells" Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) told an angry crowd to [turn that television off] when Glenn Beck's show came on."
Somehow everyone is going to have to work much harder to "depolarize" American politics. It would be a great shame if it would have to take another large national tragedy to get us all to work together for most everyone's benefit.
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