"New reality: Obama, GOP talk compromise, conflict" -- On with the Compromising!!! [View All]

[Sparkly]

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent – 7 mins ago

WASHINGTON – A chastened President Barack Obama signaled a new willingness to yield to Republican demands on tax cuts and jettisoned a key energy priority on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he and fellow Democrats absorbed election losses so severe he called them a shellacking.

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Sounding more conciliatory than in the past, the president said he was open to compromise with Republicans on their demand for an extension of all of the Bush-era tax cuts due to expire on Jan. 1, including those that apply to upper-income earners.

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Obama also virtually abandoned legislation, hopelessly stalled in the Senate, that includes economic incentives to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_washington_new_reality

What else can we possibly do?

Now is not the time for fighting!! (Neither were 2008 and 2009 -- the votes weren't there!!)

Now is the time for compromising!! (So were 2008 and 2009 -- we have to reach across the aisle and everything in the Senate requires 60 votes!!)

And as everyone knows, the BEST way to avoid a fight is to surrender before it even starts!!

Hurray!!! :

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