Travis Thompson of the Oughtism Too blog sends us this. 

Compromise refers to adjusting one’s political position to be someplace between two beginning positions of opposing sides. In a murder trial, the extremes are not guilty and the death penalty, so perhaps a compromise would be pleading guilty to a lesser crime and either no prison term or a short term. In American politics, the problem with compromise is that the right end of the political continuum has moved far further to the extreme right than at any time in the nation’s history. None of the founders imagined a country run almost entirely by major corporations, as is the case today.