Alan Simpson to GOP: Show me a guy who won’t compromise & I’ll show you a guy with rock for brains

[kpete]

Alan Simpson Slams Fellow Republicans For Unwillingness To Compromise
VIDEO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/alan-simpson-republicans_n_1549604.html

"You can’t cut spending your way out of this hole," Simpson, who was appointed as co-chair of President Obama's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010, said. "You can’t grow your way out of this hole, and you can’t tax your way out of this hole. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, we tell these people. This is madness."

Simpson continued: "If you want to be a purist, go somewhere on a mountaintop and praise the east or something. But if you want to be in politics, you learn to compromise. And you learn to compromise on the issue without compromising yourself. Show me a guy who won’t compromise and I’ll show you a guy with rock for brains."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/alan-simpson-republicans_n_1549604.html

[3waygeek]

1. This from the guy who wants to gut Social Security AND Medicare...

He was one of the chairs of the Catfood Commission. So I guess our choices are rock for brains, or shit for brains.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. How did he get on the Catfood Commission? Who put him there?