Ted Kennedy said, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good", GfinS...

This apparently is not in your DNA make-up to understand... That seems to be a common trait that is running thru the entire Republican Party as it purges anyone who might find "compromise" acceptable as a means of moving forward... This "take no prisoners" attitude by you and yer Tea-buds isn't at all American in nature... It is authoritarian... America is what it is because of compromise... Yes, it can get messy but like they say, "it might be messy but its working better than anything else"...

Integrity, if defined narrowly, isn't helpful... Integrity is having the courage to accept other folks different opinions and try to find "common ground" and not "killing fields"... That's the part of American history that has worked for the nation... When we don't go that route then we don't do very well... Think 1861... Think 2011 when for strictly authoritarian principles your party pushed a rather mundane house-keeping act of raising the debt ceiling into the country's first credit downgrade in history...

No, GfinS... You are not one to lecture Don or me about integrity... We have each been on the front lines participating in the democratic process and we have done what we could when we could but...

...we are not the dictatorial authoritarians that we hear from your side of divide...

Obama offered $3 in cuts for $1 in revenue... That's what compromise looks like... Your side's answer: "No thanks... We want to win everything"... Sounds like 1860 thinking to me... Sounds like the brown-shirts in the 30s... Yes, you can argue "That's what integrity looks like"... Well, in the words of Dr. Phil, "How'd that brand of integrity work out for ya'll???'

BG~