Bipartisanship doesn't serve self-interest

Star Tribune Saturday 25th February, 2012

Sometimes compromise isn't all it's cracked up to be. The latest example is the agreement reached by Republicans and Democrats to extend the payroll tax cut. As G.K. Chesterton put it more than a century ago, "The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected...

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