(10-04-2013, 07:40 PM)shoju Wrote: Don't fund things to save face. Fund it all, without trying to hold the nation hostage because of a fight you lost 2 years ago, and can't give up on.
Surrender, and the Tea Party swallows you whole.
Would this be a good time to plug shortest splitline, or some equally mathy solution to the gerrymandering problem? Because that's what's driving this, in the end. If the largest threat a politician faces is a primary, then they'll move towards their party's extreme wing. Compromise becomes surrender, and appeal to middle-of-the-road or swing voters becomes irrelevant.
-Jester