Comments on: Is compromise good?

By: Bus Gillespie

Bus Gillespie — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:11:00 +0000

In the movie 1776, Franklin makes the comment that a rebellion is only a rebellion in the third person, such as their rebellion. I would add that compromise is only valued by the side that doesn’t have the majority. The majority has no need of compromise, they can just push through any bill they want (note Obamacare, and many other things that happened between 2009-2011). Now that the Democrats have lost control of the house they want compromise, but I notice that the Senate and Administration doesn’t even bother bringing up bills that have passed the house. Thus the whole concept of compromise is a sham by the minority party to try and shame the majority party into not yielding its full power.

By: Bus Gillespie

Bus Gillespie — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:11:00 +0000

By: Garry

Garry — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Olympia Snowe is a liberal and should have been a Democrat. Most likely she’s just reading the tea leaves and fears getting the boot. What will her sidekick, Susan Collins, do without her?

While Republicans have contributed to the mess we’re in, almost every time there’s a compromise with with the Democrats, we move closer to a European society and lose more of our freedom.

The only times I feel somewhat at ease with regards to our Federal government, is when things are “not” getting done, the president is playing golf, Congress is in recess and the Supremes are not deliberating.

By: Garry

Garry — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Olympia Snowe is a liberal and should have been a Democrat. Most likely she’s just reading the tea leaves and fears getting the boot. What will her sidekick, Susan Collins, do without her?

While Republicans have contributed to the mess we’re in, almost every time there’s a compromise with with the Democrats, we move closer to a European society and lose more of our freedom.

By: Doug Heaton

Doug Heaton — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:23:00 +0000

Ideas can safely be compromised, but principles cannot. I define principles as those underlying truths upon which liberty or any other great blessing rests. They existed before we were born and will continue after we are gone. Identifying principles has become a great and intensly satisfying interest for me. Principles can be really inconvenient to those who don’t understand how vital they are to the blessing they support, but they can never be violated without consequence. Someone much wiser than me said that there is a law, irrevocably decreed before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated and when we obtain any blessing… it is through obedience to that law upon which it is predicated. Break the law (principle) – lose the blessing.

By: Doug Heaton

Doug Heaton — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:23:00 +0000

By: David Buer

David Buer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:18:00 +0000

Great points, Bob. Madison, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and the others were able to reason with each other, share their extensive knowledge, compromise, and create the best political system in the history of the world. Thankfully, today we can also use reason to come to solutions and expect that our elected officials will will do the same to solve the difficult problems that confront us. It’s sad to see that reasonable compromises seem to be harder and harder to come by, so we resort to other means…

By: David Buer

David Buer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:18:00 +0000

By: David Buer

David Buer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:14:00 +0000

July 4th was a good reminder of your point! BTW, McCullough is an excellent author. I also highly recommend “John Adams” if you haven’t read it yet.

By: David Buer

David Buer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:14:00 +0000

July 4th was a good reminder of your point! BTW, McCullough is an excellent author. I also highly recommend “John Adams” if you haven’t read it yet.