Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 12, 2021

I always tell kids that the door close button with the two arrows means across

And here I thought one of those buttons would be labelled “Is not”.

Would YOU compromise with one of (shudder) them?  I thought not. The problem isn’t so much the idea of compromise, it’s the willingness of voters to elect people who are so awful that compromising with them is akin to a deal with the devil.

Though come to think of it, that shouldn’t actually be a problem for many legislators… Hmm.

Bi-partisianship compromise collapsed in the Obama era when the good ol’ racist GOP boys shot down everything he tried to do for the good of the nation, partially due to him being democratic but also because he was a black man.

I only suspected it back then, but with all the exposed racism seen today I am sure of it now. Almost shocking.

If the ’pubs are going to complain about partisan actions happening today, then maybe they should look in the history books about what they did in the past to justified it all.

If you have enough money, there’s a buy-partisan elevator somewhere going up.

And here i thought that being progressive meant never being satisfied…. just like a CEO.

Bob might need a hand-basket.

There’s nowhere to go but down (even further?) from here.

It’s at least a little comforting that they’ve lowered something besides the bar.

Are the compromised souls the don’t ask button?

Some people say Sherlock Holmes was a real person, and everything Doyle wrote is accurate. Others say Holmes is fiction. Obviously, the truth lies somewhere between these two radical positions!

Seems like “bipartisanship” has been redefined to mean completely agreeing with GOP politicians (and by extension, their wealthy donors) regardless of what the majority of voters support.

“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable." – John F. Kennedy

With the proclamation of being the “obstructionist” party, they all belong in the lowest level possible, especially after today!

Shouldn’t the “Don’t Ask” button have been labeled “Manchin?”

They just can’t agree on the speed of decline. Dems want it now, and RINOs want to go just a little bit slower.

Forget win-win, even compromise is dead. If one party says that the sky is blue, the other will deny it. When asked, “OK, then what color is it.” the response would be, “Not blue.” after telling everyone how patriotic they are and all the wonderful things they’ve done for the working class.

When you reach the lowest floor, there’s one clerk been there so long he’s mummified. Nobody knows who he was or when he was last seen alive. But the personnel department has listed the position as filled.

Aren’t Politicians supposed to be the ones selected by uncompromisingly partisan people to represent them and make the necessary compromises that hurt everyone equally? Politicians and Presidents aren’t hired to “rule” the people. They are hired to guide the government to protect and defend the people, from the people they need protecting and defending from. Even if it’s each other.

Could we have a ‘’Highway to Hell’’ button?

Pandas love AC/DC. They’re getting old and dead. Sad.

It only takes 1 side to play dirty

Do you mean it doesn’t??

Everything Biden is doing is winning the approval of many Republican voters. So, in that, he has been very bipartisan.

As for Republican politicians, they have proven they have no desire to be bipartisan, nor do anything that is good for all Americans. What happened with President Obama’s court nominations, especially the Supreme Court, not allowing his choice to even be voted on. Then turning around and ignoring that argument when many in America had already cast their votes. Sorry Republicans, you had far too many chances to sit at the grown up table. No one likes the Republicans maintain the status quo attitudes. It’s time everyone voted the Republican politicians out, stop living in the past, and started looking towards the future.

“100% of my focus is on stopping this new administration” – Mitch McConnell, 5 May 2021

republican bipartisanship:

“We won. That means that we get everything we want.”

or

“We grudgingly admit we lost. That means you have to give us everything we want as a consolation.”

Chamberlain compromised with Hitler. How did that work out?

It should be obvious by now that the Party of Trump is not interested in good governance. They are only interested in retaining power.

There never again will be any compromise under the United States’ two-party system of government. That ship sailed back when Obama was President and McConnell ran the Senate. In order to have a compromise, you have to have both parties wanting to achieve a solution.

A multi-party system of government is messy but far more democratic than a two-party one. With a multi-party system, a consensus and coalition government is far more representative of the majority of the citizens than a government controlled by one or two singular interests.

Oh C’mon – everyone knows there is no Federal Department of Bi-Partisan Compromise. Even the idea is anathema in Washington.

Keep your expectations low.

FYI Wiley, since you are talking about a distance, it should be “farther down.”

In the basement where they keep the bubonic plague rats and fleas.

There is a bi-partisan group of 20 senators (10 from each party). The House has a similar group with the Problem Solver’s Caucus. Maybe each of those groups could try proposing actual legislation and see if they can get Biden’s support. It wouldn’t satisfy the extremists on both sides, but it has a chance of being legislation that would be lasting and not automatically rejected by “The Other Side”. It’s the only way I can see to get out of the whiplash every time Congress changes power and their first goal is to undo everything the other side did.

Bipartisanship is a crock. For Republicans, it consists of screaming for outrageous things, then, when they get it, screaming for even more. For Democrats, it consists of compromising themselves into the grave. Good to see they actually managed to play against type and accomplish something this year, but the conservative corporatists in their party make that difficult.

That department seems to have shrunk somewhat, lately.