Prickly City by Scott Stantis for February 23, 2009

Why does Carmen have her hand out? The Republicans have no interest in bipartisanship. Their view of it is “Do everything I want.”

Why does Winslow have his hand out? The Democrats have no interest in bipartisanship. Their view of it is “Do everything I want.”

More seriously: Carmen and Winslow both have their hands out because both Democrats and Republicans are claiming that they want bipartisan solutions. Note, however, that neither one of them looks at all pleased; and note further the vast gulf that stands between them.

This strip isn’t about who’s to blame for where we stand right now; it’s merely about where we stand right now.

True!

dataweaver: Untrue. The Democrats have made concession after concession, compromise after compromise, removing things that would help this country in the hopes of garnering Republican votes. And NO house Republicans voted for the stimulus package.

What concessions have the Democrats made? When a bi-partisan committe approached President Reagan in 1986 about reducing the deficit they agreed upon a tax increases with a provision of for each revenue dollar received there would be a decrease in government spending. Again when Bush ‘42 was approached by a bi=partisan group convinced President Bush to raise taxes which help esclated the ression. Bush ‘44 in the spirit of bi=partisanship allowed Senator Kenneday to write the “No Child Left Behind” education bill and afterward he complained “It wasn’t enough.” During the “cuts” in spending during the eighties bemoan by the Democrats were actually cuts in the amount of the increase. A department asked for 2.5 billion for their budget from the previous fiscal budget of 900 million and when they receive 1 billion instead they complain their budget was cut by 1.5 billion dollars.

It is nice to be bi-partisan but one needs to have principles.

Danielsanangelo, Hint: The Dems only gave up what they didn’t want to keep anyway…that’s called politics.

“What concessions have the Democrats made?”

I can name two off the top of my head: Tax cuts for businesses. Spending cuts.

“The Dems only gave up what they didn’t want to keep anyway…”

…what?