NO SURRENDER, NO COMPROMISE!

Look at this -- McCain is so confused about an easy question on education that Senators Martinez and Lieberman have to answer it for him -- and they didn't do much better.

Lieberman: You know a lot of candidates can give you a good answer on education or on health care or on any of the other things that you worry about….You gotta have a president that’s going to pull people in both parties together and say OK, you’re a Democrat, I’m a Republican, but do you know what’s more important? We’re Americans and we have a responsibility to deliver to the American people.

First, note the Freudian slip -- LIEberman is supposed to be a Democrat, right? MCCAIN is the Republican.

And here's my response:

LIEberman is wrong. We need MORE partisanship, not less. We need it from Democrats, who have failed to comprehend that the Republican standard operating procedure is to bait the Democrats into working with them, then take and take and take, but never give.

What’s the compromise between Democrats who think abortion should be safe, legal and rare versus Republicans who think summary execution of doctors who provide reproductive health services is acceptable?

What’s the compromise between Democrats who think Social Security should be a government run old age pension and catastrophic insurance plan, and Republicans who want to use that money to enrich speculating investment bankers and stock brokers while impoverishing senior citizens?

What’s the compromise between Democrats who want to leave Iraq and know we never should have invaded in the first place, and Republicans who think staying there for another hundred years is OK, and who can be counted on to ALWAYS, ALWAYS tell us everything in Iraq is “great,” and that if we stay just six more months (and six more months, and six more months, and six more months), they KNOW everything will be better.

What’s the compromise between Democrats who like the Constitution and the written law, and the Bush administration and its enablers, who believe warrantless wiretapping and searches and detentions are acceptable, and that the Geneva conventions are “quaint?”

What’s the compromise between Democrats who want to track down and kill Osama bin Laden, and Republicans who “just don’t spend that much time thinking about him?”

What’s the compromise between Democrats who appreciate the rule of law and Republicans who will rig elections and use the power of the prosecutor to jail Democratic candidates they regard as election day threats?

LIEberman wants compromise with Bush and his enablers? First let them acknowledge their wrongdoing. Let them be impeached and tried. Let them be convicted. Let them be punished. No truth, no acceptance of responsibility? Fine, then no reconciliation, NO SURRENDER, and NO COMPROMISE!

And if you don't know who's depicted in the photo at the top, you really should.