On 8/10/2012 8:35 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:52:48 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2012 05:30 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>>> That doesn't surprise me one bit.  The Republican agenda is simple:
>>> Vote for whatever Obama is against, and vote against whatever Obama is
>>> for. Then blame him for failing to move things forward.
>>
>> Isn't that what the opposition party does in /every/ nation?
>
> Not to the extent that happens here in the US.
>
> In most rational, civilized countries, the two (or more) parties figure
> out how to compromise on things.
>
> But here in the US, the Republican idea of compromise is "do it the way
> we want, or we'll block everything you want to do".
>
> The Democratic idea of compromise is closer to actual compromise, but
> when compromising, you expect something from the other side.  It seems
> that most Democratic legislators are naive enough to believe the
> Republicans when they say "give us something here and we'll give you
> something on something else" - which they rarely, if ever do.
>
> Jim
>
This has been described, fairly accurately, as, "Republicans move more 
right, so the Democrats move right to compromise with them, only to have 
the Republicans move more right again." At best, the Dems have become 
centrist, most would call them center-right, and "liberal" is some place 
on a different planet from them. When Obama got elected this trend 
became, "Democrats try to reclaim some vague semblance of progressive 
ideals, Republicans move so far right that **they** are now on a 
completely different planet as well, and they left the subspace radio at 
home." Its like watching some old black and white slapstick act, where 
one idiot is on the end of a balance beam, holding on by their fingers, 
and the other idiot is trying to creep out towards the end of it, as it 
tilts farther and farther towards dropping them both, in an attempt to 
help rescue them. Only.. there is no "comedic" element in this act, at 
all. Just a 500 foot drop, with no last minute "save".

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