@edgarblythe,
As long as the "call" is to demonstrate cooperation through capitulation, you won't.
When they had the power, the Dems used it, and the notion that they made and honest effort to seek real compromise with Republicans is ridiculous.
You don't really want to bring people to the table if you publicly attempt to demonize them at every opportunity. What's the play with that? In private you tell your opponents: "Don't mind my public insults. I have to do that?"
Liberals' favorite example of the sincerity of the Dems willingness to compromise with the GOP is the fact that they didn't push for a single payer health care plan.
That wasn't a compromise, it was a tactical move designed not to bring the GOP to the table but to avoid a "socialized medicine" label. All the while, though, we had Dems like Frank and Weiner promising that Obamacare was a necessary first step towards a single payer system. Indeed, the bill was designed to ultimately lead to that end by creating a series of incentives and disincentives, that would result in employers opting not to provide health insurance to their employees.
Hey, if you truly believe that a single payer system is what America needs then do what you have to do to make it happen. If you also want to disingenuously claim it's not your goal because it helps that goal, OK, the end justifies the means. You can even now try and represent your trickery as an example of the compromise you demand from Republicans, but if you represent that any of this political machinations is good faith dealing, you are, frankly, a fool or an utter cynic.
Republicans are not White Knights fighting the forces of Evil. They have proven time and time again that they are all too willing to succumb to the personal benefits of Big Government, but at least they claim to want to reduce the size and scope of government. This is a much better starting point that a congress controlled by unabashed Statists.
Tea Party members don't have a whole lot of faith in the GOP. Why would we? But we do know we have a much better chance of transforming the Republican Party than we do the Democrats, and doing so is a better bet than starting a third party.
The Tea Party Republicans who are now going to DC will either hold true to their principles and force the GOP to live up to its ideals or they will be, like others before them, co-opted by the fruits of power.
If they take the latter road, they will be in for a short ride.
