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Memo to Democrats.

By Tom | November 18, 2007

I’ve now seen most of the Thursday night Democratic candidate debate, and I’m now officially tired of at least one of the many narratives. While in principle, compromise and bipartisanship is fine, it is no virtue to meet the current Republicans halfway.

These are the Republicans who start from the proposition that torture is fine, that dropping habeas corpus for anyone the President designates is right, that putting small-time drug dealers in jail is great, but corporate lawbreakers should be given immunity. These are folks who lie and cheat, barring legitimate voters from the polls with one hand and ignoring war profiteering and outright theft on the other.

It takes two sides to create a “new politics,” and I can promise you that Republicans have no intention of participating on anything like equal terms. Their idea of compromise — the only compromise they’ll accept — is capitulation by Democrats.

I’m not working for or voting for that kind of “compromise.”

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