"Making the perfect the enemy of the good."

[Ken Burch]

35. No, not "any compromise"...I'll clarify

A compromise where what you get is less than half of what you wanted, or in which you have to accept active ugliness in exchange for some of what you wanted.

To achieve a worthwhile compromise, there needs to be at least the introduction of a piece of legislation that does what you we really want done. It's never justifiable to heavily water legislation down before even introducing it-that's largely what the problem of the '93-'94 healthcare bill was-when the proposal was introduced, there was nothing transformational in the bill even at the start.


The ACA was just barely worth signing after what was removed If the pre-existing conditions language had been removed, it wouldn't have been anything that mattered at all.

Roe V. Wade was a Supreme Court decision, btw