Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
President Obama said recently that, if the Republicans are voted into majorities in the House and possibly the Senate on Tuesday, they would need to "work with" him, presumably compromising some of their plans and accommodating the desires and agenda of the Democrats.
Republican leaders such as John Boehner have been cool to the idea, stating frankly that they were uninterested in compromising with the liberal extremists presently in Congress or the White House, or any that may still remain after Tuesday's voting.
Good. It's about time Republicans noticed what everyone else has been jamming down their throats for that last few decades.
So, after years of "We won, get over it" and midnight legislative sessions where Republicans were not permitted to offer any amendments to Obamacare or Bailouts or any of the rest of the socialistic agenda of the Leftists....
...and session after session where every Republican amendment or bill to straighten out Social Security or massive deficit spending or etc. was voted out by Democrats, rejected, let die in committee.... and then followed by shouts of "Republicans have no ideas, no suggestions, no plans, THEY are the party of 'NO'............"
...and back in previous Congress after Congress where Republicans, even in the majority, tried to work out compromises with Democrats, noteably in the 1995 budget battle, where the sides started some 300 million apart. After three weeks of negotiating, they found that Republicans had moved about $150M toward the Democrat position, but Democrats had move $13M **AWAY** from the Republican position... whereupon the Democrats shut down the government and blamed Republicans for being unwilling to come to terms.
Now, after all that, when the American people finally have a chance to express their opinion of all this in a national election, and the Democrat party is about to get the biggest ass-whoopin they have ever deserved......
.....now Democrats do a 180 and bleat, "Gee, I think it would really be better if the parties worked together, don't you?"
The arrogance, doublethink, and audacity of such a request would be breathtaking if we weren't already so used to this tired two-facedness from people of this ilk.
So I will simply reply:
Democrats, I'm sorry. But Republicans now find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place, as it were. (Though it's a good kind of "hard" after Tuesday.)
You see, Republicans remember sharply (I hope!) what happened over the last ten years or so. Liberals within their own ranks (McCain, Specter, Bush, Graham and others) encouraged such compromise, and enough went along that Republicans started acting, frankly, like Democrats. Spending went through the roof, and several new entitlements were passed and signed. Programs ranging from expanding Welfare and Unemployment, to providing amnesty to illegal aliens, were explored and even brought to the floor for votes.
And what happened? Huge groundswells of the American people - of ALL parties - rose to protest the Republican majorities. And at every election, the Republicans found their majorities growing slimmer. Until finally in 2006, the American people kicked them out of their majorities entirely and turned control of Congress, and later the Presidency, over to the extremists of the Democrat party, after promises by Obama and the others that they would change Washington, become fiscally responsible, etc. Of course, we know what they did with those promises later.
The point is, the American people have told us (and you) in no uncertain terms, that they don't want the extreme-left agenda you have been pushing for the last several decades. Only various Presidents masquerading as conservatives, House leaders such as Pelosi promising "no more deficit spending" and the like, have gotten you into office. And when the Americans have found out the truth about what you were going to impose on them, their reactions have been even clearer to you (See 1994 and Nov. 2010) as they have been to us.
Now, you say you want to "work with" Republicans, and that Republicans should accommodate your plans? It's an interesting concept, but I'm afraid we need to look at the history of such "accommodation" before taking you at your word.
Republicans have tried to "work with" you and your party for decades. Offering suggestions, concessions, starting points to work toward the middle of, etc. etc. And the result has been uniform and consistent: A constant push into more and more leftist and outright socialistic policies, coupled with nothing but scorn, derision, lies, and insults from those same Democrats.
The "compromise" has been entirely one way: Republicans have become more liberal, but I'd be grateful if you would point out even once instance where Democrats have become more conservative in their agenda, legislation, etc.
If Republicans haven't learned by now, the results of trying to compromise, work with, accommodate etc. with the Democrats, they never will, and do not deserve to exist as a political party... because they do not know how to represent what their constituents want. Voters have shown Republicans time and again - as they have shown Democrats in 1994 and now in 2010 - what they think of the liberalism they keep seeing from both parties.
With the constant, and ever stronger rejection of Democrat-style liberalism by the American people; and with the memories of the inevitable result of any attempt to compromise with the Democrats... the Republicans are now faced with only one possible response, when asked to compromise yet again. They now know, as you should know, whether the American people want the inevitable result - what has resulted from every "compromise" in the past.
Then answer is, and must be, No.
NO.
Not no way, not no how.
Forget it.
Ain't gonna happen.
The Democrat party is a stain on the body politic, unwanted by the American people - a distaste that become stronger every time the people find out the reality of what the Democrats intend to impose on them.
Democrats have left the Republicans with only one possible response to their pleas for compromise, accommodation, and the "cooperation" which they have found through bitter experience, time and again, goes one way only. It is what the Repubicans do not want, and the American people themselves do not want, and to which the people have vividly demonstrated their opposition, every time the results of such "compromise" are revealed.
Cooperating with such people as you have shown yourselves to be for decade after decade, would be to repudiate the reasons the American people are now voting for Republicans and rejecting the Democrats in a reversal not seen in most people's living memory. Compromise, and the rampant liberalism which Democrats have re-introduced with every masquerade of "compromise", would let down the American people and violate the reasons they are voting for Republicans and conservatives now. It would confirm that they voted for the wrong people... as they now know they did in Nov. 2006 and 2008.
America is not rejecting Democrats on Tuesday for the sake of getting more extreme liberalism. They have finally realized that today's Democrats are capable of nothing else, and will lie, cheat, smear, dodge, and divert to gain power and impose it. And the people are even willing to take a chance on the Republicans again, though they are rejecting a number of Republicans (Castle, Murkowski, Crist, Specter, etc.) who had "cooperated" with those Democrats in the past, and putting in fresh, genuinely conservative blood where they can.
NO.
America is sending two messages this Tuesday:
1.) We don't want the Democrats' extreme liberalism, and are voting it out.
2.) We don't want the Republicans who have compromised with them and supported that liberalism in the past, and we are voting THEM out too.
The American people's message is coming through loud and clear to Republicans - at least I hope it is. And so Republicans can have only one possible response to Democrats pleas for "compromise":
NO.
NO COMPROMISE WITH DEMOCRATS.
NEVER AGAIN.
Republican leaders such as John Boehner have been cool to the idea, stating frankly that they were uninterested in compromising with the liberal extremists presently in Congress or the White House, or any that may still remain after Tuesday's voting.
Good. It's about time Republicans noticed what everyone else has been jamming down their throats for that last few decades.
So, after years of "We won, get over it" and midnight legislative sessions where Republicans were not permitted to offer any amendments to Obamacare or Bailouts or any of the rest of the socialistic agenda of the Leftists....
...and session after session where every Republican amendment or bill to straighten out Social Security or massive deficit spending or etc. was voted out by Democrats, rejected, let die in committee.... and then followed by shouts of "Republicans have no ideas, no suggestions, no plans, THEY are the party of 'NO'............"
...and back in previous Congress after Congress where Republicans, even in the majority, tried to work out compromises with Democrats, noteably in the 1995 budget battle, where the sides started some 300 million apart. After three weeks of negotiating, they found that Republicans had moved about $150M toward the Democrat position, but Democrats had move $13M **AWAY** from the Republican position... whereupon the Democrats shut down the government and blamed Republicans for being unwilling to come to terms.
Now, after all that, when the American people finally have a chance to express their opinion of all this in a national election, and the Democrat party is about to get the biggest ass-whoopin they have ever deserved......
.....now Democrats do a 180 and bleat, "Gee, I think it would really be better if the parties worked together, don't you?"
The arrogance, doublethink, and audacity of such a request would be breathtaking if we weren't already so used to this tired two-facedness from people of this ilk.
So I will simply reply:
Democrats, I'm sorry. But Republicans now find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place, as it were. (Though it's a good kind of "hard" after Tuesday.)
You see, Republicans remember sharply (I hope!) what happened over the last ten years or so. Liberals within their own ranks (McCain, Specter, Bush, Graham and others) encouraged such compromise, and enough went along that Republicans started acting, frankly, like Democrats. Spending went through the roof, and several new entitlements were passed and signed. Programs ranging from expanding Welfare and Unemployment, to providing amnesty to illegal aliens, were explored and even brought to the floor for votes.
And what happened? Huge groundswells of the American people - of ALL parties - rose to protest the Republican majorities. And at every election, the Republicans found their majorities growing slimmer. Until finally in 2006, the American people kicked them out of their majorities entirely and turned control of Congress, and later the Presidency, over to the extremists of the Democrat party, after promises by Obama and the others that they would change Washington, become fiscally responsible, etc. Of course, we know what they did with those promises later.
The point is, the American people have told us (and you) in no uncertain terms, that they don't want the extreme-left agenda you have been pushing for the last several decades. Only various Presidents masquerading as conservatives, House leaders such as Pelosi promising "no more deficit spending" and the like, have gotten you into office. And when the Americans have found out the truth about what you were going to impose on them, their reactions have been even clearer to you (See 1994 and Nov. 2010) as they have been to us.
Now, you say you want to "work with" Republicans, and that Republicans should accommodate your plans? It's an interesting concept, but I'm afraid we need to look at the history of such "accommodation" before taking you at your word.
Republicans have tried to "work with" you and your party for decades. Offering suggestions, concessions, starting points to work toward the middle of, etc. etc. And the result has been uniform and consistent: A constant push into more and more leftist and outright socialistic policies, coupled with nothing but scorn, derision, lies, and insults from those same Democrats.
The "compromise" has been entirely one way: Republicans have become more liberal, but I'd be grateful if you would point out even once instance where Democrats have become more conservative in their agenda, legislation, etc.
If Republicans haven't learned by now, the results of trying to compromise, work with, accommodate etc. with the Democrats, they never will, and do not deserve to exist as a political party... because they do not know how to represent what their constituents want. Voters have shown Republicans time and again - as they have shown Democrats in 1994 and now in 2010 - what they think of the liberalism they keep seeing from both parties.
With the constant, and ever stronger rejection of Democrat-style liberalism by the American people; and with the memories of the inevitable result of any attempt to compromise with the Democrats... the Republicans are now faced with only one possible response, when asked to compromise yet again. They now know, as you should know, whether the American people want the inevitable result - what has resulted from every "compromise" in the past.
Then answer is, and must be, No.
NO.
Not no way, not no how.
Forget it.
Ain't gonna happen.
The Democrat party is a stain on the body politic, unwanted by the American people - a distaste that become stronger every time the people find out the reality of what the Democrats intend to impose on them.
Democrats have left the Republicans with only one possible response to their pleas for compromise, accommodation, and the "cooperation" which they have found through bitter experience, time and again, goes one way only. It is what the Repubicans do not want, and the American people themselves do not want, and to which the people have vividly demonstrated their opposition, every time the results of such "compromise" are revealed.
Cooperating with such people as you have shown yourselves to be for decade after decade, would be to repudiate the reasons the American people are now voting for Republicans and rejecting the Democrats in a reversal not seen in most people's living memory. Compromise, and the rampant liberalism which Democrats have re-introduced with every masquerade of "compromise", would let down the American people and violate the reasons they are voting for Republicans and conservatives now. It would confirm that they voted for the wrong people... as they now know they did in Nov. 2006 and 2008.
America is not rejecting Democrats on Tuesday for the sake of getting more extreme liberalism. They have finally realized that today's Democrats are capable of nothing else, and will lie, cheat, smear, dodge, and divert to gain power and impose it. And the people are even willing to take a chance on the Republicans again, though they are rejecting a number of Republicans (Castle, Murkowski, Crist, Specter, etc.) who had "cooperated" with those Democrats in the past, and putting in fresh, genuinely conservative blood where they can.
NO.
America is sending two messages this Tuesday:
1.) We don't want the Democrats' extreme liberalism, and are voting it out.
2.) We don't want the Republicans who have compromised with them and supported that liberalism in the past, and we are voting THEM out too.
The American people's message is coming through loud and clear to Republicans - at least I hope it is. And so Republicans can have only one possible response to Democrats pleas for "compromise":
NO.
NO COMPROMISE WITH DEMOCRATS.
NEVER AGAIN.
