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Obama’s deputy chief of staff was shocked when a Republican staffer told him after the 2008 election “We’re not going to compromise with you on anything. We’re going to fight Obama on everything.” He protested, “That’s not what we did for Bush.” The Republican replied: “We don’t care.” And of course they didn’t. Because what they care about is winning and getting their agenda through, not playing by rules that Democrats think they ought to play by
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understood that he was part of an ideological mission to accomplish conservative political objectives, and that accomplishing these objectives required Barack Obama to get nothing done.
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Republicans do not think in terms of being “honorable” or giving credit where it’s “due.” They think in terms of increasing Republican power, and giving a Democratic president credit and helping to boost him is foolish from this perspective
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The frog believed he had some power in the situation. But he did not. He had not answered the question “What if the scorpion does sting me? What will I do then?” He relied on the scorpion’s words and arguments and his confidence that the scorpion would do nothing insane. He should instead have insisted the scorpion bind its stinger. Promises are not enough when dealing with scorpions.
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one must think not just of how to get them to make a promise, but what power one has to guarantee they follow through on it.
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She felt that retiring for obvious “political reasons,” i.e., to preserve the power to produce a certain outcome, would be undignified. She therefore chose dignity over power.