On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Looking at the last few generations of Americans, particularly since WWII, > there seems to be a growth of 'winner takes all, anything else is complete > failure' attitude. " > > Possibly. It seems like the majority doesn't want to compromise anymore and > the minority is accused of not compromising when the don't accept the > majority's position. Health Care Deform had a lot of this going on. The > Republicans said they wanted to compromise on issues. The Democrats accused > the Republicans of blocking the legislation even though they didn't have > enough votes to do so. They even locked Republicans out of meetings. This > is only an example. Republicans do the same thing when they have the > majority. >
I believe that things have definitely gotten more polarized over the years, but I can't agree that the Health Insurance Reform bill (debacle?) was an example of an unwillingness to compromise. Apparently you don't remember the whole Gang of 6, which set the tone in the Senate and dictated large portions of the bill. Or that many of the most entrenched portions of the bill, like the individual mandate, were originally proposed by Republicans. Or how about the negotiations with Pharma and AHIP that dictated important details? That bill had Republican and Industry finger prints all over it. As a result, it is rather weak tea and will only do small, incremental steps to fix things. It is a triumph of mediocrity precisely because of all the compromises. But in this day and age, even a compromise represents a "victory" for the party in power so the minority is going to vote against it anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322824 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
