(09-27-2015 01:12 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(09-25-2015 09:32 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(09-25-2015 11:40 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  

(09-25-2015 11:31 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  As for rejecting compromise of any sort, that is certainly not limited to republicans. Reid, Pelosi, and Obama have been at least as unwilling to make genuine compromise with republicans as republicans have with them.

Sorry, but I think that's fundamentally not true.

Sorry, but I think you are fundamentally wrong. Period.

Agreed. It's not even a close call.

And you guys are entitled to your fundamentally wrong opinions. ;-)

I'll just say again, talking to friends in the field who are empiricists and data guys who analyze voting (elections and legislatures) and survey data, and also to non-Tea Party *Republicans* working in politics currently, I think once this period is far enough in the past for detached analysis the consensus will be that Republicans are going through a very atypical period where a large enough minority were so opposed to any compromise that they were unable to function as a governing party.

And social scientists are *never* wrong. And write even worse run on sentences than the one above.

Let's meet back here in 50 years and see who is right.