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Re: Leftist cartoonist gets his wakeup call
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The problem is that both "compromise" and "extreme" have been redefined. Obamacare, and its method of passage, was not "extreme." The Tea Party movement, which was built around a simple theme of lower spending and lower taxes, is "extreme." Why? "Compromise" apparently means the right giving up things while the left gives up nothing. Did you watch the last budget fight? The Democrats were rending their garments over something like $40 billion in spending cuts out of a $3.5 trillion budget with trillion-plus deficits. What's the "moderate" position there? Where do you compromise on that? Eventually, the Senate ended up with a pathetic spending cut that in many ways wasn't even a spending cut.

Language is being used as a weapon here. Be careful.

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