bacchys wrote:
Compromise is necessary in a democracy- even a democratic republic- when no single faction has a dominant share of the electorate.

As far as I can tell, the word "budget" doesn't appear in the Constitution.

What we've run into these days is, I hope, the height of Team Politics. Party over principle, and party over country. While the GOP owns the lion's share of the blame for our current political impasse, the Democrats aren't without blame. You don't compromise by putting forward legislation and telling the other side you threw in a few things you think they like, but that was the Democratic concept of compromise in '09 and '10.


Well I think the GOP set a dangerous precident of deciding on the night of the election of Obama that were going to destroy him and do nothing else. What will happen if Romney wins and the dems control the congress will be pay back time and frankly that's not going to get us anywhere. Compromise is a forgotten art and I would highly suggest all current politicians take a page from recent history and examine the relationship between Reagan and O'Neill. Reagan wasn't hell bent on all or nothing, he was happy to get a bit at a time. Clinton and Gingrich did pretty much the same, though not as friendly as Reagan and Tip. This current crop of politicians, I believe genuinely hate each other, to the point of cheering for disaster as long as it's the other guys disaster. To me that's just disgusting.