compromise

Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me One Hundred Times….Call Me A Republican Senator

White Flag of Surrender March 10, 2013

The Sunday Union Leader has a staff editorial in which it comes to the defense of Senator Ayotte accepting and attending  an invite to dinner with Mr. Obama and a number of other ‘Ranking’ (see also Rank) GOP Senators. To suggest that there is no value in conveying that message to the President in person, [ Read more ]

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Let Us Dine On The Rotten Fruit Of Compromise With the Left

December 11, 2012

If you ignore all the marketing and PR that surrounds the fiscal cliff and just boil it all down to the bones, what happens on January first is what Democrats wanted. Ace Gets it right Here… Remember, the deal that got us to this point was agreed to by House Republicans, Senate Democrats and signed [ Read more ]

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Jeb Bush On This “Temporary” Hyper-Partisan Moment

June 12, 2012

Jeb Bush is out there shilling for compromise. “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for [ Read more ]

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The CACR Trojan Horse: “The perfect is NOT the enemy of the good in this case.”

June 5, 2012

Here’s an email exchange I’ve had with a good friend and a great conservative earlier today about the CACR-12 vote coming up tomorrow. It responded to my earlier post in GraniteGrok about why CACR-12 must be killed this year. “Tim: I am not sure I understand your reasoning.  The Claremont decision shifted power from the [ Read more ]

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Congressional Stalemate is better than Financial Disaster

March 27, 2012

Is Congress at a stand-still?  If so, is that good or bad? Americans elect representatives whose views, they believe, are best for our country and our people.  Since Americans disagree about these things, there will be disagreements, conflicts and even stalemates in Congress. Our nation’s founders wanted to ensure that extreme legislation, violating their principles, [ Read more ]

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Yay for Gridlock! The word “compromise” is not bad, but “compromising principles” is a bad phrase. Throw in “social contract” and there’s a big problem.

December 18, 2011

Social Contract: an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each I have been noodling on the phrase “social contract” for quite some time ever since Elizabeth Warren had her misbegotten rant denigrating capitalism and [ Read more ]

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