Reply #90: Maybe out of history?

[Virginia Dare]

the entire history of our government has been based on compromise. The last time a compromise couldn't be reached, we went into Civil War.

Of course Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay and company wiped all of that away when they barnstormed into Washington. The Democrats seem to still cling to it, maybe in the (false?) hope that we can even the playing field again, and get back to the way things were. Perhaps those bridges have all been burned. We'll see.