Compromise Not

The John Batchelor Show ^ | July23,2011 | John Batchelor

[Hojczyk]

Desperate pols tell many tales. The so-called debt limit talks remain entirely and only about both parties preparing for the 2012 election, and the winner will be the side and the op who needs immediate poll gratification least.

In sum, whoever blinks first to get a compromised deal for his side is the loser. Jim McTague, Barron's tells me that the White House is delusional about the significance of the debt limit talks: Jay Carney maintains that a successful conclusion on reducing debt over the next ten years will awaken the jobs market.

McTague says this makes no historical or economical sense, however because the White House no longer maintains an economics team that can figure out the stagflation and the joblessness, because the White House is overrun with political gamers, the magic bullet theory of policy to solve the economy is treated as rational.

The GOP has fewer policies to explain. The Tea Party election of 2010 sent freshly partisan Republicans to Washington to accomplish the narrow and necessary job of cutting spending and cutting taxes and cutting down the fledgling European welfare state.

Simple. Less government is a party mantra. John Boehner has no elbow room to maneuver: the party is uninterested in maintaining a sluggish maitre de and old Gingrich bagman as a leader for the 21st Century.

What is specially fun is to watch POTUS Obama, who owes his job to his militant partisanship, qvetch and whine that the GOP is unwilling to meet him halfway.

What goes around, comes around, Mr. Obama; and the lesson of your swift rise to power is that you never met anyone halfway, including the one time you voted against raising the debt limit during your 15 minutes in Congress in between trawling for bucks with Tony Rezko, backstair dealing to secure Mrs. Obama the mansion, and launching your glamorous campaign in December 06.

Compromise is for chumps and losers, Mr. President, and your presidency is Example Premier of "Why not compromise?"

[tet68]

Remember, “If you’ll compromise once, you’ll compromise
twice.”

Hold the line pubs, don’t give in. Make Obama own it.

[devolve]