Republicans should seek clarity by listening to voters

[DixieBelle]

Money quote -

Often when Washington insiders talk "compromise," they really mean engineering a situation where nobody really has to take a position, or responsibility. In those circumstances, clarity is better served by forcing positions into the open, even if doing so involves confrontation.

Sometimes, of course, compromises can bring clarity -- when it's clear what's being given up, and what's gained in exchange. Generally speaking, though, the Washington approach is to pretend that there's a free lunch, rather than to acknowledge the trade-offs.

This must change. Voters deserve to know the truth, and a compromise that won't work if voters know the truth isn't really a compromise at all, but a con.

A move for clarity will meet much resistance. First, of course, from Congress itself -- including many Republicans. Virtually the entire superstructure of today's legislative branch is designed to minimize clarity, and hence accountability

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Republicans-should-seek-clarity-by-listening-to-voters--1467728-106781468.html#ixzz14ccCies9

[true_blood]

They better listen to the people. They were put there for a reason, to stop the "Obama Regime".

[Eupher]

That article is spot-on.

Since many politicians are lawyers, and lawyers and since most lawyers are adept at language, it's not surprising that parsing words and deflection on controversial issues dilutes accountability and responsibility.

A politician's survival is based on how little he can say in a great many words.

It's the Washington "two-step", to take a line from the film "A Clear and Present Danger".

And the Republicans are just as guilty about this kind of stuff as are the Dems. Little wonder that Congress is loathed as much as it is by the people when both political parties are playing the same tap-dance games.