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Do you agree with Congressional Republicans strategy to stake
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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
Question of the week: “Do you agree with Congressional Republicans strategy to stake out a position and not compromise?” Yes: 2 No: 9
- Karen Anderson: “No. Republicans are only interested in defeating Obama. They do not appear to care about the country. Compromise is the life blood of politics.”
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Dave Appling: ” Absolutely not. There are times when one must stand or fall on principle, but that’s not what’s happening here. The GOP’s constant brinkmanship, for questionable motives and heedless of risk, has already done incredible harm. ‘Compromise is the soul of democracy.’ (Christian Science Monitor, 1/4/11).
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Bert Berson: “No. It is not a strategy it is tactic. As such it is non-productive. By caving on the debt limit negotiation Obama give it the green light.”
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Chris Bryant: “No, Taking a stance of no compromise just sets everyone up to lose. Compromise is necessary to reach any agreement involving the multitude of conflicting agendas existing in congress.”
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David Cohen: “Emphatically no! To govern requires compromise – on each side and the unwillingness to budge from edge positions is not helpful to the people, to the economy or to the government.”
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Dennis Kennedy: “No! To get things done competing parties must be willing to compromise. Only extremists are unwilling to compromise.” n Julian Mancias: “No. Everybody needs to be flexible during negotiations.”
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Henry Miller: “No! Compromise is the essence of politics. Right now, that essence reeks with a strong, very unpleasant odor. Last time I checked, ours was a government of, for and by the people. All the people, not just some.”
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Jeff Nunes: “Yes. In this context, compromise is overrated. What is the point of ‘compromising’ on a hollow plan that does little to nothing to create jobs, regurgitates ideas that have had little success in the last three years (or ever), and was designed for them to reject in the first place? Meanwhile, the 112th Congress, on the House side has voted more than 700 times on measures designed to get the economy going, and its counterpart the Democratic controlled Senate has held a corresponding 137 votes, yet somehow it is the Republicans who are refusing to compromise?”
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Lisa Pampuch: “No. It creates gridlock and economic damage; just one example is the harm caused by the GOP’s games with the debt ceiling. Their ‘no compromise’ nonsense doesn’t embody the spirit of America’s Founding Fathers who hammered out our Constitution and Bill of Rights using compromise, or the many American statesmen of both parties who came after them.”
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Jeff Smith: “Depends on the issue at hand. Some things in my mind are non-negotiable while on others there is room for compromise.”
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