Some of you folks reflexively oppose any form of compromise.
Look, we do not have control yet. If this is not voted on before break, our taxes will go up, period.
There is some money being tossed in here as sweeteners for “moderate” Dems. It stinks, but it’s Washington. That’s life.
We won’t have much ability to push our way through until January.
We must use our energy for critical issues like opposing the DREAM act, which Boehner has voted against and will again despite the rumors on this thread.
Is he perfect? No. He has let us down at times. But the bogeyman is not always out there to get you.
Note: I am not saying a call is a bad idea....hold their feet to the fire.
We don't need these turkeys and we don't need them stealing our money at gun point.
The only Federal programs we need are the military defense of our nation and the FAA. The FAA could be merged into our military defense.
Of course some of us reflexively oppose compromise, when it’s with the debbil.
I think that we are at a point in America when it is no longer a contest of wills between the ideologies of liberal vs. conservative, but a contest of good vs. evil. Witness the lopsided, strangled passage of the healthcare “reform” bill as a perfect example: with polls in the weeks leading up to the final vote running as high as 86% against it, the democrats shoved it through anyway. How did they do it? They told any lie, broke any law, and made or took any bribe neccessary to get the job done.
These are the people, and the mentality, that our representatives face every day in Washington. Do we really, really want to compromise with that? Ever?
When you infect a good idea with a bad one, the only “compromise” you get is that the integrity of the good is compromised by the infection of the bad. What is bad for America is good for the democrat party; the democrats have proven time after time after time that they are for party first and America second. For a while, many in the GOP were almost exactly the same way.
When you stick your hand in a dog’s cage and he bites you, eventually you learn to stop sticking your hand in his cage... reflexively. Like a rabid animal, the democrat party has shown that it cannot be reasoned with and must not be compromised with. Our country is at stake.