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Originally Posted by filtherton
I think your world is so surreal because you don't seem to acknowledge the existence of the republican party and the ease with which the senate can be brought to a standstill by a minority of its members.
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His world is also so surreal because he doesnt believe in the concept of political compromise....unlike one of his heroes, Ronald Reagan:
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"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
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Oh, and Bush compromised on the 03 tax bill....he only got half of what he wanted, threatened to veto it, but of course, signed it.