Compromise is dead - today's Dems need to stand their ground

[derby378]

How many people do you know of that say complaining about the HCR bill is like complaining about getting a plain vanilla shake instead of the strawberry shake with whipped cream and a cherry on top?

What if you never even got a milkshake at all? What if Big Insurance drank it for you?

Compromise is like mixing water and dirt. The end result might still technically be liquid, but it's still undrinkable. And you're still thirsty.

Bush didn't feel the need to reach across the aisle. Why should Obama and the Democratic Congress?

Or perhaps that little nugget of nuance has been lost on people like Emanuel and Gibbs.

[damntexdem]

1. But they're so used to being compromised.

I mean, so used to compromising.

Many Dems in Congress must really like that dirt and water mix because they keep getting led to it down the garden path.

[Deep13]

2. Compromise is only possible if the opposition acts in good faith.

If both sides have honorable goals, they can make a deal. If one side is simply using the prosect of compromise to get the opponent to back down, it will never work.

[derby378]

5. Okay, I'll give you that

At least if both sides were honorable, we might get a vanilla shake out of the deal.

[Deep13]

6. I mean if the Ds and Rs were both truly concerned about the country...

...and each was convinced its side was the way to do that. As it is we have a D. party representing a variety of points of view while the Rs are simply talking robots working to end any oppostion to corporate rule or promotion of human rights.

[kenny blankenship]

3. I will just say that deciding to "stand on principle" presupposes something.

which may make it an impossible option for us.

[zipplewrath]

4. Compomising good with evil

just dresses up evil in the trappings of good.

Compromising the good with the bad, merely damages the good, and preserves the bad.

Compromise is only fighting for the things you need, not necessarily all the things you want. Compromising two steps forward with 2 steps back gets you no where.

[Melissa G]

7. K&R. It got us the mandated lack of health care we now enjoy.

Is the insurance better than it was? sure. Is it the Health Care reform we were promised? No. Sadly, no.

[RandomThoughts]

8. There are some things that can be compermised on.

But anything unacceptable is equal to anything else unacceptable, so below the acceptable line it does not matter if you get no shake, or some shake that is not acceptable.


And with a pun, you can't let someone shake you to accept something you do not.

Although I am mostly thinking on self finances for travel and stuff right now. Not sure what congress is doing.

[Blue Owl]

9. Was GWB known as "The Compromiser?"

If anyone should be "The Decider" it should be Barack Obama.

What GWB took from us, bipartisanship will not get back.

[jgraz]

10. Whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists?

[Odin2005]

11. "Compromise" = Capitulation

It's an excuse to ignore what the majority wants and keep on sucking up to their corporate masters.