A little bit of sanity from the right
Tony Blankley explains the purpose of compromise:
Americans, and particularly we conservatives, take unjustified pride in refusing to compromise. But the genius of American politics is precisely our capacity to politically compromise. Our founding fathers were master compromisers -- and not just on secondary issue. At our constitutional convention-after heavy negotiations -- the big states got the House and the small states got the Senate. More or less, the big government Hamiltonians got the federal powers they deemed necessary -- such as the interstate commerce provisions, while the Jeffersonians got the Bill of Rights.
It's a good point. I'd like to see more depth on all of the points of President Bush's plan - if anything, I'm more concerned that the program is vaporware - but this is the start of a compromise. No one is happy with the program; but almost everyone should find a kernel of what they want in this program.
(Hat tip: Lorie Byrd)
