Doesn't Compromise With The Republicans Mean Giving In To Their Demands?

[Itsthetruth]

Buzzflash.com
April 28, 2005

Compromise for the Democrats ... Hellfire & Damnation for the Rest of Us

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
by Shirley Smith

Why, why, why ... with all of the insults, and threats that could cause deaths because they incite the wrong people, not to mention the out and out threats to our Democracy ... why would any Democrat want to compromise? Compromise is just another word for the Democrats to be "bipartisan" and the Republicans can continue to be as greedy, violent, and controlling as usual. Why? Do the Republicans ever compromise? The last compromise should have been when the Patriot Act was pushed through for no reason other than to control the lives of Americans. Compromise with this-out-of-control Bush administration. Well, Senator Biden ... it would be easier on you Democrats, wouldn't it.

Meanwhile, there were hints of a possible compromise. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, told ABC News's "This Week": "I think we should compromise and say to them that we're willing to -- of the seven judges -- we'll let a number of them go through, the two most extreme not go through, and put off this vote."

These are the people who represent the Bush administration and these are the people that Senator Biden wants to compromise with. I don't know who these people think they are, but judging from their threats, I'd rather compromise with the hellhound, it would probably be less dangerous and with no after effects for years to come. If these people don't respect our Judicial branch of the US government, when they put most of them in our government and maybe that is why they feel they can threaten them when they don't like their decisions ... why would Senator Biden think the Democrats can do honest government business with any of these people? They lied this Country into a war.

The Bush administration hasn't done anything to earn trust or compromise in my opinion. If the Democrats have to always give in and it is never the right thing to do with a government such as the one run by the Bush administration, then just lock the doors, turn out the lights, and go home. Let the American people know what is going on in the Bush administration and how they have to strong-arm the Democratic Party to get their way. This administration has not done ONE Positive thing for the American people. Not One Thing. Compromise? People don't get a compromise from Republicans ... compromise really means to give into their demands, right?

http://www.buzzflash.com/smith/05/04/smi05003.html

[BillZBubb]

1. Great article.

Naturally, I agree 100%. There is no compromise possible with Bush and the ReThugs.

I'm still hoping all Democrats finally have found some backbone, but I'm not optimistic that's the case.

[Zorra]

2. Republicans are fascists. They really are. 60 years ago the US fought

in a very nasty, desperate and necessary war to rid the world of these vermin. Now, these same vermin have taken control of our country.

We must not compromise with them.

Never, ever trust a republican.

The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here"
by Thom Hartmann

Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan.

"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

In this, Wallace was using the classic definition of the word "fascist" - the definition Mussolini had in mind when he claimed to have invented the word. (It was actually Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile who wrote the entry in the Encyclopedia Italiana that said: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Mussolini, however, affixed his name to the entry, and claimed credit for it.)

As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-15.htm

Just say "NO" to republicans.

[Warpy]

3. The problem is that you simply can't kill an idea

not even a nasty, discredited one like fascism. You have to resist fascists in every area and at all times. The rank and file pubbies have forgotten this. It seems the DLC Democrats are happy enough with their fat tax cuts that they've forgotten it, too.

It doesn't matter how many people you kill in war and revolution. The bad ideas will always come back, usually favored by arrogant and ignorant emotional adolescents who think they've come up with something new and different.

[Zorra]

4. Good point. Especially an idea that ruthless people use to gain wealth

and power.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Part of the reason we're in this mess is that the Democrats

have been compromising with the Republicans. I was heartened by the solidarity on the question of Social Security, but it's almost too little, too late.