Want To Know Why There Is No Compromise In Washington?

It's because the GOP has no interest in compromise:

The first major speaker at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference . . . was Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, who had a fundamental message for the base: compromise sucks.

GOPers on Capitol Hill should not be looking to work with Democrats to develop common solutions to the nation's woes, he proclaimed. Not at all. Not ever. And DeMint, with an I'm-so-clever smile, offered what he obviously thought was a killer analogy: the Super Bowl.

Referring to last Sunday's game, he said, "I can guarantee you that coach Tom Coughlin did not tell his Giants to go out on the field and work with those other guys....They weren't cooperating with Tom Brady."

DeMint explained that the New York Giants and the New England Patriots had "different goals." Consequently, compromise would not work. Continuing with this trenchant observation, DeMint noted that "compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals." You can compromise with a wife or with a business colleague. But not with Democrats: "We don't have shared goals with the Democrats."

Of course, there is nothing new here. "No Compromise!" has been the rallying cry for the Tea-Baggers for quite awhile, and the Tea-Baggers control the GOP.

What I find interesting is that members of the so-called liberal media still insist on blaming "both sides" for gridlock in Washington, when it is clear that the Republicans are not only responsible for it, but they're proud of it and openly boast about their refusal to compromise with Obama and the Democrats. It's their fucking policy, for Christ's Sake.

And the above-quoted Jim DeMint, perhaps the biggest asshole ever elected to the Senate, actually supported indivudual health care mandates as recently as 2007.