Can we learn empathy in the next 4 years folks?

[csberry]

To everyone who wore a black armband today...

Just realize that there were about an equal amount of people on the other side of the aisle that felt the same way eight years ago that you feel now. Clinton-haters on the right, shake hands with the Bush-haters on the left. Okay...you have 4 years to learn that the world will not come to an end because the other half of the population is "idiotic/stupid/naive." Let's get back together in 4 more years and do our best to put the petty antics on both sides to a much calmer level.

Get over yourselves, partisans! Fundamentalism is evil...whether religious or political; you do more harm than you do good. America needs to remember that we became independent from Britain thanks to passion. But it was compromise that united us into a nation. Our govt was formed by compromising between small and large states, trade industry and agrarian labor, not to mention the continuing compromises necessary to navigate through the checks and balances of our republic's government.

Our country has messes that have occurred in the past 4 years. Let's spend the next 4 years working together to solve these problems rather than complaining about past mistakes.

Personally, I think that even though Bush is still in the White House, the fact that Tom Daschle was defeated and (I just read a quick blurb on this) John "666" Ashcroft is stepping down seems to be a sign that 2 of the top vitriolic figures in D.C. won't be there to muck things up.

Comments

[otopico.livejournal.com]

compromise require both sides to come to the table. one side controls it all.

they have no need to compromise.

ashcroft is stepping down because he has embarrassed the president and was asked to.
people dont just stop being the ag of america.

just like george tenet dint resign, he was told to step down or be fired.

the lack of character is frightening.

[csberry.livejournal.com]

There aren't enough Republicans in the Senate to squash a filibuster, so some compromise is necessary for something to make it's way out of Congress. Besides, as I mentioned in someone else's journal earlier today; one party controlling Congress and the White House brings the internal factions to the surface. Legislation isn't rushed through because there will be a mainstream bill and a more-conservative/liberal-than-thou bill that end up competing for that party's vote. Just think back to Clinton's universal healthcare bill when he had a Democratic Congress. There was fighting that it didn't go far enough from the left that no version was able to advance before the Republicans took over in 1994. It is the group that can muster wooing some of the minority to join them that wins (and universal healthcare wasn't going to lure ANY Republicans).

Fired/Quit, I don't give a shit...just get Ashcroft out of the Justice Department! ;)