Grading and politics

[eriehiker]

The New Left for ya : )  

There really isn't any sort of common ground.

Hey, you can only listen to Rush Limbaugh for so long before you get the idea that maybe Republicans aren't in the mood to compromise.  Hehe.

The best way to be is to be honest about your positions, fight for them and then be prepared to make a deal.  The ability to make the deal is what made Reagan great.  Maximize leverage and then cut the deal.

Note: The ten senators who met with Biden had this kind of situation. They had a lot of leverage in negotiations with Biden. Instead of $1.9 trillion, maybe they could have proposed a $1.5 trillion deal and legitimately put some limits on spending. I think Biden would have taken that. Instead, they proposed a ridiculous lowball $600 billion package. That was never going to fly. They either couldn't make that deal or didn't want to make that deal.