Friday, February 05, 2010

Steven Pearlstein - The myth of Washington bipartisanship and the art of true compromise - washingtonpost.com

Steven Pearlstein - The myth of Washington bipartisanship and the art of true compromise - washingtonpost.com

Not bad for the business columnist:
The only way a democratic system like ours can work is if the majority party acknowledges that winning an election means winning the right to set the agenda and put the first proposal on the table, though not the right to get everything it wants. By the same logic, if members of the minority party want to influence that policy, they have to understand that it will require them to accept some things they don't like to get some things they do.

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