He followed a line of compromise.
Bob Ezrin, producer for Pink Floyd, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Peter Gabriel, described Reznor in 2007 as a "true visionary" and advised aspiring artists to take note of his no-compromise attitude.
"His merit as an artist lies in the fact he is incapable of compromise," Beaton noted.
It was incumbent on Mr Obama to "appeal to both sides of the aisle, and to everyone involved in this situation, to embrace a sense of compromise and moderation," noted Zack Space, a so-called Blue Dog Democrat from Ohio who would rather that the public option were dropped.
We have seen this with the Republican Party, which, as Thomas Mann (of the liberal Brookings Institution) and Norman Ornstein (of the conservative American Enterprise Institute) have noted, is now "ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition".
In talking about her new book, The Spirit of Compromise, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann notes, "The problem and the promise [in American democracy] is that you have to compromise".
"No matter how great the client, there's always a certain amount of compromise in our work," he noted.
The rise of headbanging Tory ideologues destroys the habit of compromise upon which Westminster depends and which Thatcher herself, as Mr Clarke notes, displayed.
Reagan was a master of compromise.
"Capable of compromise," the paper concluded.
