The other day at his press conference, the President expressed the fact that we have a divided government, meaning the GOP controls the House. He inferred that because of this little gets done in Washington because of this division. This most striking comment resonated as I believe most governments of the US, since its founding have been "divided," yet the congress and executive branches compromised frequently and achieved much - and congress was not so maligned by the public as it is today. It occurred to me the President must truly miss his first two years in office with a "unified" government where compromise was an unnecessary and unneeded tool for agreement.
It is one thing to not compromise on the basis of a firmly held principle, and quite another not to compromise when you don't know or have forgotten how.
The unwillingness or inability to compromise, now on both sides of the aisle, is a significant reason why little happens in Washington these days.
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