"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
Wise words to consider...
Typical of the Times, to print a bunch of half-truth. True, there was compromise involved in the creation of our nation. But it was not a compromise between liberalism and conservative principles. It was a compromise between two different degrees of conservatism.
How do you compromise with a party (dems) who want to destroy America at its very core.
If there must be compromise, let it be compromise for movement in our direction...not the liberal direction. The liberals call it “compromise” if they say they’re satified with 50% of what they want, and we get nothing we want.
Horse manure. There is compromise and compromise. Reagan faced a Democrat majority in congress and got at least half of what he wanted, including winning the Cold War.
Boner faced a loser in the White House and a majority in the Senate with many Democrats worried about their seats, and managed to lose about 99% of the debt battle.
And a good negotiator knows just how much to compromise. A poor negotiator compromises before the debate begins. That was Boner. He made it clear before the final crunch came that he was going to back down. And he did.
WTF What about Rubio,Paul and the rest of the Tea Party supporters who won in the biggest turn over in years.Remember what Thomas Jefferson said.” On matters of style swim with the current on matters of principle stand like a rock”
America already has compromise. They are called the Democratic and Republican parties.
There’s just a few problems.
When dealing with a nuclear Iran, you can’t afford to make a mistake.
When dealing with 60 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities, you can’t afford to play around.
When you have 9% unemployment and 47% of young African Americans unemployed and people are getting killed near the border, you can’t just smile and make a deal and pretend everything will be just fine.
And I would add that Boner didn’t lose 99% of the battle because he is weak and stupid. He didn’t get to be Speaker of the House by being weak and stupid. He lost it because he is corrupt, and allowed himself to be bought off, and bought off enough of his troops to ensure that Obama won the battle despite all his problems.
That’s what his kind of ruling-class politician does.
We are here today because of Rush and he was referring to “compromising with yourself” which is always a bad deal. Angle was robbed of ver seat by union vote fraud and the other one was a true misfire. The Tea Party will learn and do better in the next elections. The writer is creating grey where black and white are still apt.
What I want to know is when’s the press going to deal with the myth of media objectivity?
Some issues can only be addressed by compromise. But when someone insists we can borrow our way to prosperity, there is no compromise with such fiscal and monetary madness.
60 million dead unborn babies don’t like compromise.
Just bend over and say please
A liberal paper left of the NYTs and NPR wants to define what it means to be “conservative?” Yeah, right.
That’s like asking the fox how to gaurd the eggs.