Republican Senator Quits Leadership Position to Pursue Compromist and Immediately Demands No Compromise

This Wouldn’t Happen in a Country with a Free and Independent Press

As the government lurched towards its latest shutdown problem, The headline in the Washington Post reads this way

Shutdown looms: Spotlight now on Senate after Boehner wrangled House GOP votes

Leaving of course the clear impression that it was the Democratically controlled Senate that has to act to meet Republican demands.  And the New York Times has this favorable story on Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander

Tennessee Senator Takes a Stand for Compromise

whom they commend for stepping down from his Senate leadership post to work for compromise, conveniently omitting the fact that Mr. Alexander’s “compromise” position for the Senate on this issue was that Senate Democrats should just shut up and take the House Republican’s bill as is.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on the same program: “Everybody knows we’re going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that the president declares and that FEMA certifies. And the House sent over a bill that does that and the Senate should have approved it.”

He blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) for manufacturing a crisis over funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Well no thanks to Sen. Alexander a compromise was reached and the government will not shut down over this issue. 

But yes, you have that correct.  That is the way Republican Senators work for compromise, and that is why such a person is lauded by the New York Times, and that is why we need to go back to the time where the United States did have a free press and actually paid attention to what was going on and what people said and did.