Do you think the Democrats should be more conciliatory?

[kentuck]

Or do you think they have compromised enough already? Like Harry Reid said, it is not a concession to agree to opening our government or extending our debt limit....that is their job.

John McCain said "what goes around comes around". He suggested that the Democrats should be "magnanimous".

Are you fearful that the Democrats might take it a step too far?

[Xyzse]

1. Democrats have been too conciliatory for a long while.

It is the fact that they don't know otherwise is the problem.

Besides, I don't appreciate their sense of entitlement, thinking that just because by virtue of them being who they are, they should be treated a certain special way. As if.

The problem really is, no matter how conciliatory they would be, they wouldn't stop and just ask for more.

[Orsino]

31. Not just conciliatory, but bought...

...by some of the same money that has thoroughly corrupted the GOP.

All the terrible things our government is doing result from private and corporate money perverting the process.

[MineralMan]

2. I think they will do what must be done.

2014 is coming. Then, it's up to all of us to fix this problem in the House. If we're willing to do the work, we can make it happen. We can do what must be done. If not, we'll have more of this crap in the future.

GOTV 2014!

[dawg]

3. Make it look conciliatory in the public eye.

Find little ways to twist the knife that only policy wonks and the actual parties themselves will understand.

[Mz Pip]

4. In a word

NO.

[hobbit709]

5. I'll go with the old Soap Creek Saloon security motto

"Show no mercy, take no prisoners"

that's the way I feel about repukes. That's exactly what they would do tous if they could.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

6. No. n/t

[doc03]

7. To quote Boner "Hell no we won't" n/t

[uppityperson]

8. A compromise is when both sides give in some. That has not happened yet. So no. They should not

as the other side has not compromised.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. they compromised enough years ago....NO time to be conciliatory (=weak).

[csziggy]

10. NO - Concillatory is why the Democrats in office are far right of the country

Our elected officials have given up much before negotiations begin on nearly every subject. This needs to STOP!

The teahadists need to give in, give up, and go away.

[geek tragedy]

11. Drive a hard bargain, seal the deal, then shut up and let the Republicans

have their civil war without our involvement.

[Salviati]

12. I think asking for clean bills IS being magnanimous

I don't think it's our job to make them look good. I think that as the losers of this fight that they picked, they NEED to look bad, or it will just happen again.

[Erose999]

15. Exactly, that type of bad behavior should not be encouraged. We need Biden to follow the teahadists

around with a water bottle and squirt them every time they say/do something stupid. Negative conditioning. Train the little fuckers like dogs.

[Salviati]

34. What I think needs to happen:

The unholy alliance between the teabagggers and the chamber of commerce needs to be broken. If one of those groups is not calling for republican blood after Thursday, then I won't be happy.

[Erose999]

13. We shouldn't have to "console" the T-baggers into doing their damn jobs. A quick check of my

thesaurus for an antonym for "consoling" leads to "antagonizing". Sounds good to me.

[Glorfindel]

14. No. Not just no, but HELL, NO!

that is all.

[JEB]

16. Fuck no.

Dems need to start ripping off heads ans shitting down their throats.

[datasuspect]

17. do you think republicans should lick a dog's hairy butt?

[treestar]

18. No. Using this government shut down and debt ceiling crisis

is evil on the Republicans' part. The budget was already negotiated and to Paul Ryan specifications.

This type of leverage is just wrong.

[DesertFlower]

19. no. nt

[jessie04]

20. As conciliatory...

as when impeached Clinton.

as when they insult my current president.

as when the question his place of birth.

as when they threaten impeachment now.


nope, fuck them.

[ecstatic]

21. I was furious at the way Gregory & Co. (MTP) spun things yesterday

Dems have already compromised on so much, but listening to David Gregory, Panetta, and repug-lite Harold Ford, Jr., you'd think none of the past compromises and agreements ever happened. Why isn't the media mentioning that part?!

And no, I don't think democrats should be more conciliatory, but with the double standards that continue to exist, I won't hold it against them if they offer something tiny.

[Auntie Bush]

22. NO, NO, NO, Absolutely No! Not in your life!

Just in case I didn't make myself clear.....NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOO!

[JEB]

23. John should contimplate his own words, "what goes around comes around".

[Hutzpa]

24. If anything I agree with Harry Reid's statement

it is not a concession to agree to opening our government or extending our debt limit....that is their job.

Stand your ground Harry.

[louis-t]

25. No

[Siwsan]

26. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Enough is enough. It's time to stand up to the bullies.

[sibelian]

27. Well.... let me put it like this:

[Jackpine Radical]

28. I think they should be more conciliatory & willing to compromise.

After all, the socialists and Greens do have a lot of good ideas.



Oh--were you talking about compromising with Republicans?

[font size=6 color = red]FUCK NO!![/font]

[MFM008]

29. NO

NNNN00000000000

period.

[avebury]

30. Hell No!!!!

The Democrats have caved in way to much in the past and all that has done is to fuel the bad haviour and temper tantrums of the Repubicans.

[mulsh]

32. why? McCain is the last person any one should pay attention to.

Besides the teabagger/repub. definition of words like "compromise" and magnanimous" is "give us every thing we demand"

I think the Dems should do their job and stand firm against teabagger's ludicrous demands.

[99Forever]

33. No more capitulation to these assholes.

None. Zero, Ziltch.

If they don't like it, fuck 'em.

[BelgianMadCow]

35. Should have been a poll with

No, Hell No, and Over my dead body

[Blue Idaho]

36. The time is now, The place is here. Stand Your Ground Democrats!

It needs to be painfully clear to every Tea Bagger in this country that playing chicken with the full faith and credit of this nation is a place they will NEVER go again.

I don't want magnanimity I want hell's fire and damnation.

[bluestate10]

37. HELL NO!!! nt

[Brigid]

38. Absolutely not.

Nein. Nyet. Iye. Non.

[LostOne4Ever]

39. Compromise?

Doesn't compromise mean that both sides get something? What are we getting out of this? Loss of funds for the PPACA? More cuts to programs already hurting?

Forgive me, who won the last election? Who has the presidency? Who has the Senate? Who WOULD have the house were it not for gerrymandering?

Yet, the budget the senate passed and which Boner wont bring to a vote has what in it? Cut after cut? Wait, what? The party that LOST gets what they want and we get nada? Yet we are the ones who are not being magnanimous or conciliatory? Really?

HELL NO!!! Its the repukes who need to realize how freaking conciliatory we have been and make some compromises.

[backscatter712]

40. Hell no! They're way too conciliatory. They need to be fighting. n/t

[SteveG]

41. Oh, Hell NO!

They should get nothing.

[Emit]

42. Yes

If by conciliatory, you mean Republicans can kiss this Democrat's ass!

[lonestarnot]

43. unrec.

[Glitterati]

44. Not just NO, but HELL NO! n/t

[gopiscrap]

45. fuck no