President Obama was going to piss off somebody...he chose the Catholic Church. Good on 'im.

[MineralMan]

41. Here's the thing:

I write what I want, and you write what you want. That's how it works.

Might there be a compromise? There usually is. Everything has to keep running in a society that is divided in many ways. I expect compromises. Sometimes, I hope for compromises, depending on the issue.

I have not lost my patience for the operation of a society. I have lost my patience with mindless bashing of every issue that does not go exactly as someone hopes it would go and is, hence, a complete disaster. Nothing goes exactly as anyone wants. Never has. Never will.

Look around you. We're a nation that is divided between two broadly different political sets of opinion. Sometimes one set of opinions is in power. Sometimes, the other is in power. We vote for that. In 2010, we voted for a Republican majority in the House. I didn't vote for that. I never vote for that. We lost that election, to be quite frank, and that's the reality we're dealing with. So, there will either be compromises or there will be nothing.

In 2012, we have another opportunity to elect a Democratic-controlled Congress and President. If we do that, we'll have fewer compromises. My loss of patience is with those who do not understand that simple reality. I don't expect that patience to return any time soon.

From now on, when someone says that I'd better believe some bullshit or another, I'm going to tell that person that, no, I'm not going to believe it. I'm going to continue right on trying to get a Democratic Congress and President elected. Anything that gets in the way of that will not get my patience. It will get my animosity.

I hope that's clearly enough stated for you.