Alan Simpson: "Show me a guy who won't compromise, and I'll show you..."

"... a guy with rock for brains."

Crusty Republican Senator Alan Smpson (Wyoming)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_K._Simpson

“You can't cut spending your way out of this hole. You can't grow your way out of this hole and you can't tax your way out of this hole "Put that in your pipe and smoke it," we tell these people. This is madness. If you want to be a purest, go somewhere on a mountain top and praise the east or something, but if you want to be in politics, you learn to compromise and you learn to compromise an issue without compromising yourself. Show me a guy who won't compromise and I'll show you a guy with rock for brains."

Video clips of the Simpson-Bowles interview with Fareed Zakaria are available at http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/25/simpson-show-me-a-guy-who-wont-compromise-and-ill-show-you-a-guy-with-rock-for-brains/?iref=allsearch

Transcript of Zakaria's interview with Simpson-Bowles, May 27, 2012. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/27/fzgps.01.html

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Alan here... It is refreshing to hear an old school, non-doctrinaire Republican describe the lunacy that has overcome his party. 

Lest we forget... 

"On the other side of the fence," Obama is not a socialist.

Obama is a Rockefeller Republican.