The "fiscal cliff," or compromise does not mean making the other guy give you everything you want...

I have been hearing a lot about the 'fiscal cliff" lately, and a lot of it smells like manure.

The worst offenders are those trying to blame democrats, saying that it is because of their "irresponsible spending," which comes as a surprise,  since the republicans have had a pretty tight control over congress for as long as I can remember.  If the problem was merely convincing the democrats to cooperate, the problem would have been solved years ago, since they are the ones that have repeatedly shown a willingness to compromise.

On the other hand, the republicans have not only been unwilling to compromise, but have been obstructionist twelve out of the last twenty years, even going so far as to start rambling about impeaching President Obama before he was inaugurated for his first term. I will repeat that, they were talking about impeaching him before he even took office. yet they are the ones complaining about a "lack of compromise."

I am willing to believe that they might mean well, but to suggest that the party that has been willing to negotiate is the one that is not cooperating suggests either that the republicans do not understand that compromise means that both groups have to make concessions, or that they are so arrogant that they believe that they can get away with running the country into the ground for a third time.

Then again, there does seem to ba an issue with people remembering their shenanigans, since there was little uproar the second time they did it, when they dragged their feet on the issue of a federal budget until the government almost shut down for a second time, or that people forgot that they were the party so intent upon forcing Clinton out of office that the federal government did shut down for a few days.

Personally, I hope we "go over the fiscal cliff," and it ruins the republican party. They have lost any sense of what their party is supposed to be about. They keep talking about the president as if he is some sort of felon, but fail to own up to the fact that they are the ones who have shown that they are willing to ruin the country in order to promote their agenda.