A modest proposal to the hardcore defenders of this no-compromise compromise

[Armstead]

Maybe you'd feel a lot lighter if you just acknowledge that President Obama screwed the pooch on this one.

Even he and his spinners are characterizing it as a really bad bill.

Everyone makes mistakes. There will be other days, other opportunities to not screw the pooch.

[CakeGrrl]

1. I like it:

'Will you please mollify my ego and admit that I'm right?'

And patronizing to boot! How presumptuous to assume that agreeing with the decision must weigh heavily on those who do.

It's really eating at you that people don't see it the same way as you. Why?

Personally, I think time will prove those screaming about the President's weakness to be overwrought. I'm not going to twist and turn over it much until then.

I understand why the President did what was done.

And so do a considerable number of Congressional Dems.

Are you going to write them all and ask the same thing?

Good luck!

And I'm feeling fine. Sorry if that bugs you.

[Armstead]

4. Denial is not a river in Egypt

I know a fair number of very moderate Dems and they are frustrated and extremely disappointed. These are not the "fringe left" and they have been strong supporters of Obama until recently.....Just a small sampling, I realize, but you underestimate the depth of disappointment.

But despite your 7th Grade schoolyard jibes ( which I have come to expect), I am simply suggesting that there's no harm in acknowledging what most Democrats acknowledge, including strong supporters of Obama......The rope-a-dope didn't work.

But I know you're feeling fine. The ability to deny can have that effect.

[CakeGrrl]

9. This is the problem with short-term thinking. You deem it a failure.

Some of the things Dems want to see aren't going to kick in until later.

You want to call it a failure before it unfolds. Some of us are not buying into your premature assessment.

[Armstead]

10. If I turn out to be wrong in two or three years, I'll happily admit it

[rury]

2. I feel just fine and "light"

It's the best we can get with a racist,teabagging Congress.

[LAGC]

3. Keep lowering that bar...

And see where we end up in another few years.

[Dad Infinitum]

8. It never had to happen in the first place

Obama could have repeatedly said, 'America does not deal with extortionists', and refused to discuss it with them. That would have put the whole mess in their lap.

Problem solved.

[AtomicKitten]

5. His mistake was not vetoing the bill and invoking the 14th Amendment.

That would have reset the political atmosphere in a big way.

On edit: This is my opinion, but I do understand other points of view on this.

I have a modest proposal: Stop filling the pool and doing the backstroke in the anxiety people are feeling. As in DU's mission statement/rules, people come here for a respite, not a brow-beating courtesy of interweb gotcha political weirdness.

[Armstead]

6. Like you think I'm not eeling anxiety?

And you're doing a pretty good job of browbeating, yourself.

[JVS]

7. "other opportunities to not screw the pooch."

You're not supposed to split infinitives like that. It should read "not to screw the pooch."