TIM CAVANAUGH fact-checks Thomas Frank by using an ingenious modern appliance. “But it’s not what I think or Tom Frank thinks that matters. It’s what Dickey Flatt thinks. I called up Flatt Stationers Inc. to find out, and I found the 66-year-old printer to be not only the essence of Lone Star cordiality but a staunch supporter of his former senator. . . . So have things gotten tough enough to make even Dickey Flatt doubt Phil Gramm’s free-market policies? You be the judge: ‘I think the government ought to stay out of it,” Flatt says.'”