Posted on 12/07/2006 10:14:27 PM PST by Tzimisce
To most people a compromise is an agreement. Two or more parties sit down and they each give up something for a greater agreement. Thus they end up with a part of what they want but not all of it. The misery/goodness is spread equally.
Enter the Baker Report. It's been out two days and the left is celebrating. I haven't seen them this happy since the election of Bill Clinton and the Democrat Congress. Katie Couric was almost wetting her panties the other night in excitement. Lefty bloggers are going crazy with happiness.
Thus I'm wondering what they gave up in the Baker Report. It was a 'compromise' right? So what did the left give up? We all know that if they had given up something that's all we'd be hearing about in the unbiased MSM is how 'unreasonable' it was.
A better question is what did we get out of it? I would expect that 39 of the 79 articles in the report would be things that I (as a conservative) agree with. So how come I have yet to see anything I like? Why are conservative pundits oddly silent?
Cause we haven't gotten crap. We didn't get anything out of this "compromise" accept ignored. The people who were supposed to represent our side gave up our principles and sold us out. This was more of an embarrassing surrender than a compromise. If both sides are supposed to get something, why aren't I happy?
Get ready for tons of gleeful talk of 'compromise' from the left. They'll tell us that now that we all agree, we go forward from here. The fact that this was a RECOMMENDATION will quickly be forgotten. The fact that we *don't* agree will be ignored. It will become the only way to handle the war in Iraq from here on in (since it mandates the liberal way of doing things.)
Thus from this point in, conservatives will be viewed as the enemy by the political powers that be. Smug liberal political elitists will be quick to remind us that "now that we all agree" the only discussion left is how to implement their ideas.
This stupid Commission was brought to us by a Republican Congress who was supposed to be fighting for our values. The only upshot is that these idiots won't be there to betray us next year.
The proverbial nuts of true Conservatives have been bound and gagged by the MSM, the PC crowd and the ACLU. It's been over for years.
I would suggest a link to the full report, if available, for reference on this thread.
Are you serious? The report is useless.
Chancellor Hitler only wants a little piece of Czechoslovakia. No big deal.
I agree with your post, up until the last line.
Compromise is about each side getting something.
Conservatives wanted to teach the republicans a lesson and they got that.
Liberals wanted to win an election, and they got that.
Here each side got what they wanted.
Go stand in the corner.
"Are you serious? The report is useless."
Have you read it, or are you just going by what the news and critics say?
unless you are ready, willing and able to bring the fight your enemies fight to their front door, you cannot win.
We gotta go Roman on these folks..........
If any sign of resistance is detected, you level the town and kill all but one....
so that "one" can warn the next town....
and so on and so forth.
They think they've pulled off another Vietnam style backstabbing of our troops. Of course they're happy. They won't be though, when it becomes clear that this enemy will follow our army home. Indeed, the enemy is here already.
Yes, compromise means a few things...
to men it means, 'I'll meet you half-way.'
to women it means, 'shut up and do what I said.'
See the difference?
Why shouldnt he go by what the critics say? Aren't the critics are right?
I just watched the Charlie Rose show on which he had both Baker and Hamilton. Both men were brought on to talk about their report naturally.
After watching those two, I came to the conclusion that they were both a couple of airheads. Heads in the clouds.
Apparently we are supposed to believe that all we needed, that the missing ingredient to winning this war is for both sides, Republicans and Democrats, to get bi-partisan, and put out a bi-partisan report. Yeah, that was what missing. Republicans and Democrats holding hands, singing Kumbaya. I'm sure the Taliban and al-qaeda is shaking in their boots and ready to surrender once they learned that James Baker was going bi-partisan with Lee Hamilton.
Send in the clowns...
Where are the clowns.....
-Stephen Sondheim :-)
No, I havent read the report. Take that. :-)
THAT was EXCELLENT!!! LOL.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.