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sibelian

(7,804 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 01:12 PM Oct 2013

There was never any advantage to compromising with the GOP.


The reason being - there was never any advantage to the GOP in actually compromising with Dems. In reality, the only strategy available to them, if they wanted to preserve right wing ideology, given the nature of the coming demographic shifts, was to play endless games of chicken.

They knew that from the start.

So did some of us.
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There was never any advantage to compromising with the GOP. (Original Post) sibelian Oct 2013 OP
Obama compromising with the GOP in 2011 was a mistake Cali_Democrat Oct 2013 #1
The GOP does not distinguish compromising and capitulation rock Oct 2013 #2
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