Can Republicans ever compromise??? (FC)

A remarkable thing just happened in Congress. Republicans and Democrats sat down together to work out a budget. This hasn’t happened since 2009. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan Romney’s running mate, you’ll recall, and the hero of fiscal conservatives told Politico, “Let’s understand what we’re doing here, we’re going back to regular order.This is how the founders envisioned the budget process. We want to get back to that.”
Ryan’s comment is both encouraging and puzzling. Departure from the regular order has left majority of the nation thinking our political system is in decline. It’s encouraging that Ryan, is attempting to make the system work again, we should remember why Congress became so dysfunctional and unwillingly to provide for the American people.

According to New York Magazine "There have been fiscal crises before  17 shutdowns since 1976, now 18. There have been almost suicidal economic policies  fights over tariffs, trade and taxes have been bread and butter issues since Colonial days. Admittedly, the disaster known as the sequester is something new"One reason has been the Republicans determined effort, since the election of President Obama, to undermine the process of compromise. This is not a secret. The result has been to undermine the works of government and the good standing of the Republican Party. It may be that Republicans, following the principle of enlightened self-interest that has been establish since the beginning of goverment, have recognized that no one has all the answers and that compromise for the good of the country. Doing one’s sworn duty  is what they were elected to Congress to do not to put America in a egrectious situation. But I’m skeptical. Especially with the fact that  Paul Ryan voted against a bill that ended the shutdown and both “ultra-conservatives”  the committee that’s supposed to restore Congress to “regular order.”

Meanwhile, this week millions of disabled elderly veterans and children will start to see their food stamps cut. Private charities across the nation are being overwhelmed with demands beyond their control. Yet sadly, Republicans want to make even more cuts. This is wrong. Whatever happened to “We the people”?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit “we the people.” Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

Majority of Congressional Members may need to take A.P U.S History like I did, to get a better understanding on how Congress was made to make America a stable country. With all my being that holding the government of the people as hostage, demanding political ransom, is dead. Maybe at the end of the 2014 election, it will be. Especially if Americans go out and vote for lawmakers that will represent the American people but, not themselves.

Until then, pray, but don’t hold your breath that we’ll return to any “regular order.”