(01-12-2019 09:37 AM)bullet Wrote:  The conservative Boston paper calls it like it is. https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/11/...ompromise/

"...Oh, wait — I know. They’re Schumer and Pelosi. AKA “Democrats.” And Trump is evil incarnate. Much like Democrats said George H. W. Bush was during the 1992 campaign, when they were attacking him as a racist, warmongering stooge of Big Oil.

And yet, Bush did compromise. His compromise was a massive tax hike that took hundreds of billions of dollars out of the private economy and put it into the federal government’s pocket over the subsequent decade.

President Obama, on the other hand, did not. A Democratic supermajority shoved Obamacare down the voters’ throats and it will cost (according to the latest numbers) $1.34 trillion over a decade.

Which one was undermining the fabric of our democracy?

The argument that Democrats are making now — “We can’t waste money like that!” is the biggest spit take in American politics. Since when did Democrats worry about wasting money? The Obama “Bridge to Nowhere” stimulus bucks? The pallets of cash we airlifted to Iran?

Or how about Head Start? We have mountains of research proving this preschool program doesn’t work, but we’ll still waste $10 billion on it this year.

Liberals can’t have it both ways. They can’t harp on about how our fundamental democratic institutions are weakening, and our trust on governance is failing because our leaders won’t work together, while simultaneously telling Trump (and his 60 million voters) to pound sand over his core campaign issue.

If our democracy is truly in danger, then Democrats should cut the deal. Schumer and Pelosi should say, “Look, we don’t like the Wall. We think it’s dumb. But Trump won the election and democracy means letting winners do dumb things their voters like. So go play ‘Bob the Builder’ while we solve real problems.”

That’s what #Bush41 would have done. That’s what Tip O’Neill would have done. Will Nancy Pelosi?

Hell, no. Because she thinks she’s got Trump over a barrel and, like all the other “bipartisan compromisers,” she’d rather defeat Trump than defend the fabric of our democracy."