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My way or the highway won't win the cultural battle on gun rights, abortion, or any of the other social issues.

Hear, hear!

I don't like it, but compromise is the essence of democracy. We live in a country with a sizeable number people who don't share our opinions. We can try to convince them that we are right, but until we are successful, I'd rather have 50% of what I want than 100% of what I don't.

54 posted on 12/10/2003 8:05:51 PM PST by MrJingles ("Democracy is doomed once the majority realizes that it controls the public treasury." - - Voltaire)

I'd rather have 50% of what I want than 100% of what I don't.

After two interations of such malarkey, you have 25 percent of what you started with. After six iterations, you have about three percent.

You die by degrees, and you die ignobly.

Who really knows, though, what strategy Bush/Rove/Cheney/Frist/Hastert are really working under?

It could be that they ARE just trying to get along. It could also be they're giving Democrat and Independent voters enough reasons to re-elect the President, and give us at least a 60% majority of the Senate next year.

If that were the case, and we get 4 years of veto-proof control, it will be very interesting to see where they take us. A conservative Supreme Court for the next 10-20 years? A hugh roll-back of programs that should never have been managed by the federal government in the first place? Even bigger and better tax cuts?

Fact is, we and the other side and the media can only speculate.

Hey, I can dream, can't I?