Alan Simpson is a former republican senator. He’s the last of a dying breed – elephants without rocks in their brains.
During an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Simpson explained that compromise in politics is required.
Simpson laid it out this way: “If you want to be a purist, go somewhere on a mountaintop and praise the east or something. But if you want to be in politics, you learn to compromise. And you learn to compromise on the issue without compromising yourself. Show me a guy who won’t compromise and I’ll show you a guy with rock for brains.”
Mr. Simpson is correct. Sadly – both sides of the isle are filled with politicians who have rocks in place of a brain.
And what does this former senator think of Grover Norquist: “For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you. He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.”
Good for him. Now if only the republican voters would listen to the man and stop voting for these right-wing radicals who think compromise is a dirty word.