To most people a compromise is an agreement. Two or more parties sit down and
they each give up something for a greater agreement. Thus they end up with a
part of what they want but not all of it. The misery/goodness is spread
equally.
Enter the Baker Report. It's been out two days and the left is celebrating. I
haven't seen them this happy since the election of Bill Clinton and the Democrat
Congress. Katie Couric was almost wetting her panties the other night in
excitement. Lefty bloggers are going crazy with happiness.
Thus I'm wondering what they gave up in the Baker Report. It was a
'compromise' right? So what did the left give up? We all know that if they had
given up something that's all we'd be hearing about in the unbiased MSM is how
'unreasonable' it was.
A better question is what did we get out of it? I would expect that 39 of the
79 articles in the report would be things that I (as a conservative) agree with.
So how come I have yet to see anything I like? Why are conservative pundits
oddly silent?
Cause we haven't gotten crap. We didn't get anything out of this "compromise"
accept ignored. The people who were supposed to represent our side gave up our
principles and sold us out. This was more of an embarrassing surrender than a
compromise. If both sides are supposed to get something, why aren't I
happy?
Get ready for tons of gleeful talk of 'compromise' from the left. They'll
tell us that now that we all agree, we go forward from here. The fact that this
was a RECOMMENDATION will quickly be forgotten. The fact that we *don't* agree
will be ignored. It will become the only way to handle the war in Iraq from here
on in (since it mandates the liberal way of doing things.)
Thus from this point in, conservatives will be viewed as the enemy by the
political powers that be. Smug liberal political elitists will be quick to
remind us that "now that we all agree" the only discussion left is how to
implement their ideas.
This stupid Commission was brought to us by a Republican Congress who was
supposed to be fighting for our values. The only upshot is that these idiots
won't be there to betray us next year.