re: #33 erik_t

This presumes that the #FFFFFF liberal wants Obama to say no to a deal that includes beneficial-to-the-American-people compromises purely to spite the Republicans.

If there’s yet been such a counter-proposal made by the GOP, I sure haven’t heard it.

The standard is really less about spite than it is about unreasonable demand for purity. AS is saying the whistle should be blown when someone is suggesting that “anything other than a purely (fill in your political persuasion here) is a dastardly sell-out to the evil other faction(s)!”. That seems a proper frame of mind,