4th December 2012, 9:06 AM
Congress actually set up a bomb to threaten themselves to do something. It was a dumb plan that isn't even working.
I really don't know what's going to happen. I wish some sort of compromise occurred, but what's being requested by the Republicans is such a parade of horribles that it's like compromising on only a little genocide. Yes, I'm aware the republicans don't see it that way, and yes, I'm aware they feel the same way about what Democrats are requesting, hence the impasse. Here's the difference. What Republicans are requesting is undoing much work done over the past 100 or so years, and what they don't want to happen is something that's been at the backbone of government since it's founding, and pretty much all of them: taxes. At a certain point, you have to remove the "humanities class" glasses and realize that sometimes one side is just plain wrong. Sometimes you just can't compromise with the devil, even when they are doing "the exact same thing".
I really don't know what's going to happen. I wish some sort of compromise occurred, but what's being requested by the Republicans is such a parade of horribles that it's like compromising on only a little genocide. Yes, I'm aware the republicans don't see it that way, and yes, I'm aware they feel the same way about what Democrats are requesting, hence the impasse. Here's the difference. What Republicans are requesting is undoing much work done over the past 100 or so years, and what they don't want to happen is something that's been at the backbone of government since it's founding, and pretty much all of them: taxes. At a certain point, you have to remove the "humanities class" glasses and realize that sometimes one side is just plain wrong. Sometimes you just can't compromise with the devil, even when they are doing "the exact same thing".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)