by Bill Breakstone, December 8, 2010
President Obama deserves the Nation’s thanks for working with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and coming up with a compromise on the extension of the Bush tax cuts (“the Compromise”). Instead, he has become the target of left-wing whiners from within his own Party, who prefer to stand on principle like academics in an ivory tower while the country continues to suffer the effects of the worst recession since the Great Depression. In doing so, they are endangering the welfare of over 2 million unemployed, and tax breaks that may spur the economy to renewed growth and increased hires.
The actions of these misguided Representatives and Senators mirrors those of the Republicans over the past two years—putting ideology and self-interest above the common good—and is yet another example of why the American public is so fed up with practically all politicians.
Neither the Obama Administration nor the Republican leadership was happy with everything in the “Compromise,” and both have stated so. But that’s what a compromise is all about. Both parties achieved some of their objectives and both had to back away from a few of their principles. Those Democrats that can not support their President on this should go back to their states, head for the nearest church, and beg for the Good Lord’s forgiveness.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good seems to be a problem embraced here by some actors on both the left and the right. Is the compromise a perfect public policy? No. I can see that from different perspectives but it is better than raising taxes on all Americans and ending the extension of unemployment insurance.
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