Posted on 08/07/2014 4:00:37 PM PDT by jazusamo
It's time to revisit the widely disseminated myth that compromise in politics and governance is the highest virtue.
Recently, I heard a television host whom I like and respect lament that Congress left town without taking action on our border crisis. Members of Congress, the argument goes, just need to get together, put aside their partisanship and get something done. After all, even couples going through an acrimonious divorce can sit down in the same room, close the doors and work out some agreement.
But getting something done isn't always preferable to doing nothing, especially if the proposed action would make things worse. Would this host, for example, say that granting instant amnesty to every one of the people who have crossed our border illegally in this latest surge would be preferable to not acting? I pray not.
I think part of the problem is that this host assumes that President Obama shares the host's good faith — that he wants to work with Republicans in Congress to enforce the border and properly deal with those who have entered illegally.
How do you compromise with someone who doesn't even share your goals and who has no intention of compromising with you, even if he pretends otherwise? President Obama arguably brought on this invasion himself by issuing his lawless executive order in 2012 declaring that he would stop deporting young illegal immigrants if they met certain requirements. He sent an unmistakable signal that children entering the nation illegally would receive amnesty — and we have concrete evidence that this was a driving factor in the current border invasion.
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In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
-- Ayn Rand
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I think this would be a good place for compromise. The Republicans should put prosecution, and deportation on the table, then as a sign of compromise with the Democrats, they could remove prosecution, and just go with deportation. Thats the way compromise works from the Democrat position.
Yep, that would work and solve the illegals problem.
FWIW, when my first wife decided it was a good time to divorce me, she refused to sit in the same room with me to negotiate the particulars. When there is that much of a wall between people, compromise does not exist.
Compromise is the work of the Devil...
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