Reply #45: Yes...and in fact MODERATION and COMPROMISE is needed for good... [View All]

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...government. And the only problem I have with the DLC 'moderates' is that they're too willing to compromise or concede issues without a fight and without getting something in return.

Like the Patriot Act. The RWingers insisted that it had to be signed immediately...without debate or even reading it. Now...wouldn't a good compromise have been to take a couple days and allow everyone to read it and then take a few more days to debate it? But that's not what happened. RWingers proclaimed that wanting to read or debate it was traitorous. THAT'S where the negotiations should have began for a compromise. Instead...there was a mad rush to vote it into law to avoid the appearance of being 'unpatriotic'. But wasn't it also unpatriotic to push such sweeping anti-Bill of Rights legislation into law without debate?

Meanwhile...there are scores of Democrats AND Republicans that want real compromise and debate...but they're shouted down or marginalized by fanatics on the right and DLCers on the left.