"You don’t have to abandon your principles to cut a deal. You just have to acknowledge that there are other people in the world and even a president doesn’t get to stamp his foot and have his way."
I liked this quote from todays David Brooks' column in the NYT speaking of the compromise worked out between Obama and Rebublicans determined to extend the Bush tax cuts until the heat death of the universe. He is a member of that rare and endangered species, the moderate conservative. I'm not sure how he has survived this long, other than the fact that he writes for the NYT, that liberal media bastion. He appears to have considerable respect for Obama. Perhaps because they are both just entirely too reasonable for their own good.
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