{"id":59098,"date":"2025-11-12T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59098"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:59","slug":"compromise-not-a-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59098","title":{"rendered":"Compromise: not a four-letter word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A word to the wise is in order as Congress prepares to end the ridiculous closure of the federal government.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It is that &#8220;compromise is not a four-letter word.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The U.S. Senate approved a compromise spending bill with a 60-40 vote and sent it to the House, where it likely will pass with a bipartisan majority before it goes to Donald Trump&#8217;s desk for his signature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Holdouts on the left don&#8217;t like certain elements of the bill. Holdouts on the right are of the same mind. They are angry with the bipartisan centrists who have said &#8220;enough is enough&#8221; and want to return the government to its fully staffed capability.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I understand the idea of governing on principle. I do not understand why those principles become so hardened that they prevent any kind of governance to occur. That&#8217;s what happened with the government shut down for 40 days, setting a record.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Congress should not have been allowed to collect its salary while federal employees were being denied their pay while continuing to report for work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The deal that appears set to be worked out will keep the government running until late January. Then we&#8217;ll likely have more of this foolishness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Don&#8217;t pat yourselves on the back members of Congress. You did nothing to crow about.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word to the wise is in order as Congress prepares to end the ridiculous closure of the federal government. It is that &#8220;compromise is not a four-letter word.&#8221; The U.S. Senate approved a compromise spending bill with a 60-40 vote and sent it to the House, where it likely will pass with a bipartisan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Compromise: not a four-letter word<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1978],"class_list":["post-59098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-government-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59100,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59098\/revisions\/59100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}