Barbara Bush is shocked that "compromise has become such a dirty word"????

[Skidmore]

Are these people incapable of introspection? Does she not see the role her husband and sons have had in fostering this type of discourse? I nearly threw the remote at the teevee.

[thelordofhell]

1. Did it hurt her "beautiful mind"?

Go jump in a lake Barbara..........mother of the worst President to ever walk the Earth

[The Genealogist]

12. That was the exact question that entered my mind when I saw this post.

The woman is such an elitist that Rmoney would tell her to tone it down a few notches.

[Lint Head]

2. Looking at this poor excuse for a grandmother compromises my eyes

[madrchsod]

3. she is telling the truth.

she finally realized just how destructive the monster her family and friends created has become.

[rexcat]

13. You give her too much credit...

she and the rest of the family is not that introspective!

[Drunken Irishman]

4. When I was a kid, growing up in the early 90s, I thought Barbara Bush was George's mother.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. The Bushes are personae non gratae to the teabagger class. n/t

[Solly Mack]

6. Fuck her

[spanone]

7. i'll bet in babs world, it's those damned democrats who won't compromise....

[libinnyandia]

8. She is pro-choice or at least she was a couple of years ago. So is Laura. They aren't as

bad as their husbands. Though that isn't saying much.

[The Second Stone]

9. Nixon hated Barbara Bush and complimented her

ability. "Nobody hates like Barbara Bush" or something like that.

[hfojvt]

10. actually her husband did compromise

"Once he became president, however, Bush raised taxes as a way to reduce the national budget deficit. Bush refused many times but was making no progress with a Senate and House that was controlled by Democrats. Bush eventually agreed to a compromise with Congressional Democrats to raise several taxes as part of a 1990 budget agreement."

but then because he compromised, he got stabbed in the back - by Democrats

"Bush's eventual opponent Bill Clinton used the broken pledge to great effect late in the campaign. In October 1992 a television commercial, designed by campaign strategist James Carville, had Bush repeating the phrase to illustrate Bush's perfidious nature. It was regarded[by whom?] as one of the most effective of all of Clinton's campaign ads. The tax reversal played a central role in reducing the public's opinion of Bush's character."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_my_lips:_no_new_taxes

Seems to me that the Clinton betrayal helped to set the stage for - no compromises, because if you do compromise, they will use it against you.

[Dawson Leery]

11. Talk you your sons about this problem.

They are very much so responsible for this situation.