Republicans don't want "compromise." They want everyone to do what they want. That was proven the past two years, and most notably in the last year when all the Republicans said was "No." And not a civil "No," it was a 3 year old screaming tantrum, eyes shut, fingers in the ears yelling "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" "No". Now they've gotten control of the House, and while hiding the erections in their pants they're talking about "compromise."

Republicans have a different meaning of that word. They're saying "compromise" when they mean "capitulate." Their view of negotiation is laying out their demands, and pointing a rifle at the heads of the opposition.

Republicans suddenly want a "balanced budget" and "fiscal responsibility." They had that back in 2000, even had a budget surplus. Then the robber barons in power saw a way to bilk the American people and plunged that in to the largest deficit ever seen. But that was Obama's fault, no Republican had a hand in that. George W Bush? Never heard of him.

The Republicans want the Democrats to capitulate to the Republicans on their ideas of "fiscal responsibility." I heard a Republican say, "Today's deficit spending is tomorrow's tax hike." If they truly believed that, the budgets of the Bush era would have looked much different. Oh but they live in a different world, where tax cuts and increases in spending "don't matter." They're right, they don't matter. Because you can use the deficits and potential tax hikes as a weapon in an election to gain power, and then say "oh, we're not going to do anything about that because it doesn't matter." The Republican ideal of "fiscal responsibility" is enriching the rich on the backs of everyone else, while selling the country to China.

The Republicans are nothing but a party of nepotists and hedonists who are looting this country and passing the money to their rich and powerful friends, while telling the rest of us it's what we want, it's good for us, and we asked for it.

The Republicans are saying that the government hasn't been listening to the people. The Republicans are telling everyone what to say. Now the Republicans are telling the Democrats to "compromise."

I think the Democrats should "compromise" about as well as the Republicans did the past two years - that is not at all.

Stick by your ideals, Democrats.