I'm not sure the country is going over the cliff, but DU sure as hell has.

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180. COMPROMISE

Sometimes it's hard to let go of party loyalty and look at the whole picture. And sometimes drawing a line in the sand and demonstrating leadership when core values are at stake is also how politics work. We compromised with the war hawks in Afghanistan. We compromised with the Wall Street banksters. We compromised our civil liberties. We compromised with the drug companies and health insurance companies. We compromised our values ignoring the previous administration's use of torture and manufacturing war . We compromised our integrity by appointing the VP of Monsanto as a senior adviser to the FDA. We continue to compromise the planet allowing the oil and "clean" coal companies to write our energy polices. Next up, cutting the public safety net defended by two generations of Democratic leaders. And that too will be rationalized as a necessary compromise. After all, only the vast majority of democrats and the majority of the public are against the cuts to Medicare and Social Security as they were against raising the cap for the Bush tax cuts. But you see, we have these irrational extreme RW Republicans who must be continually appeased and apparently for some that's how politics work.