Should the Republicans Compromise?

No, Republicans should not be too quick to compromise. If Republicans know the right way to proceed, any compromise with the democrats will be a mistake. I fully expect that the next two years will be a constant battle between the two parties. Undoing the damage obama has done is the first order of business, but stopping him from doing anything else is a close second. Since obama's leftist agenda is wrong for our country, a stalemate is not all bad.

I don't think the Republicans should compromise. The American people should be given a clear choice in the 2012 election. How do you compromise on such issues 1. Big Government vs Small Government 2. Federal Control vs State Control 3. Government run vs Free Market 4. Balance the budget by raising taxes vs Cutting spending Maybe it is time the President compromises.

Reaching across the aisle under the Democrat-controlled Congress meant "here's what we're going to do - you have no ideas of your own so you have to agree to our plan". Any attempt to explain the ideas of the other side was met with "you have no ideas of your own". Then they told the public "they have no ideas of their own, but they are just being the party of no". I wouldn't blame this new majority in the House if they didn't feel like reaching across the aisle to their Democrat colleagues. Not attempting to compromise, however, may leave the voters feeling they are just as arrogant as the congressmen they were elected to replace. Those who were elected have an obligation to do what they were elected to do. If they don't, they will be ousted in the very next election. They were sent to Washington to put the brakes on, to halt runaway spending, to extend the Bush tax cuts and to repeal or defund health care. They must do those things even if it means that reaching across the aisle will result in no cooperation from the Democrats. Compromise is good, but compromise that gets in the way of implementing the changes they were elected to accomplish will only infuriate the American public. It's going to be a bit of a dance at first. They must be open about what they are doing and why, and do only what is supported by the people they represent.

Here is the problem with your logic: If they don't compromise than nothing will get done, and if nothing gets done then they won't do what they said they would during the campaign, and they will be kicked out of office. Sound good to you? Republicans don't have a veto proof majority, so if they don't compromise then they won't have "even more free market liberty and less government control." When you are elected by an angry mob, they aren't patient with you at all.

They should take this oppertunity to become conservative and put a real platform of small business, smaller government and true consrvative ideas back in place. We lost the consrvative party in 1980 and it is way past time for them to come home to real American values.

I know we had some pretty convincing wins in NM; didn't look purple to me. And I expect our new Congressman (Republican) to do what he said he'd do. I also expect our new Governor (Republican) to do what she said she do. ETC. I'm just unhappy our Senators weren't up for re-election... And since they were lucky not to have to run for re-election, I'm sure hoping they were "listening"/"watching"!

There is little to compromise the republicans has checkmated and won water loo Jim Demint said we will find out who won this battle in November on face the nation 3/28/2010 Obama burnt to many bridges the November elections is over the republicans have finally won water loo and now the country is gridlocked and nothing to compromise we can all wait as the superpower nation America focuses on the 2012 elections that's what it's all about right winning the election?

READ MY LIPS: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! One should never imagine one can come out ahead when making a deal with the devil. Socialists are satanic tools, inch by inch ripping tear away our Constitution, removing liberties, taxing us into oblivion--what--is the record not clear enough? If there's any "compromising" to be done, make them do it! Maggiepie “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw (Possibly the only thing about which I've ever agreed with GBS)

You paint with a pretty broad brush. Regardless of the party in *power*, an inability to "reach across tha aisle" on all matters, so that something is actually accomplished, leaves this country with yet another do nothing legislature and *that* is not good for the American people.

I don't think there's anything wrong with listening to all sides, but the voting public have told those elected what they want and if any compromise takes the party away from what the voters want, I can't imagine those elected will keep their jobs very long.

I don't remember the word, "COMPROMISE," being brought up for the past two years. Why bring it up now? With whom should the republicans compromise, the democrats or the people? The democrats certainly didn't compromise with the people nor the republicans when they had the House majority. Now they want compromise. I hope the republican will listen to all sides, unlike the democrats, and not have the, "We won," attitude that the democrats had.

It depends on what they compromise on. If they compromise on a plan that will goes against cutting our debt and/or creates bigger government than they will get voted out. They were voted in to stop those things. It all depends on the will of the voters. Our elected officials are suppost to be the voice of the people who voted them in...so they need to BE their voice and vote and compromise according to the will of the people of their state/district.

No way "reach across the aisle"! That's a democrat ploy to do their bidding. Republicans should NEVER compromise with this most corrupt traitorous democratic party ever in power. Republicans must remove the usurper the democrats committed treason to put in power so they could win an election at horrific cost and sorrow to the American people. Republicans must stop trying to be deomcrats, must clean up their own act and must now try to recover and restore our nation. NO COMPROMISE WITH THE DEVIL OR THE DEMOCRATS.

It shouldn't even be up to the Republicans to compromise at this point. The Democrats certainly haven't made any effort to compromise in the last two years. As a matter of fact, the Dems have been totally partisan and have ignored all attempts by the Republicans to have any input in the process at all. They should move ahead with the agenda the American people have just demonstrated they want. It's up to the Democrats to ask for compromise now but they won't. They will still want everything their way and their way only. Take the healthcare bill for example. A good compromise would be to keep some of the sections that are good and scrap the sections that serve special interests or don't do anything but cost money and expand government. But the Democrats won't want to change it at all. They will want to keep it the way it is, their way. How can the Republicans compromise when the other side won't give an inch? It will be interesting to see what happens now, but I don't think there will be much reaching across the aisle, at least not for a while.