The Compromise

Seeing as it is the new year, and a new congress, and the apparent epithet of 'compromise' resounding through the halls of Congress, perhaps it is a good time to reflect on a few basic starting points that our elected officials are choosing to ignore, unless they are merely ignorant of how this country was founded. The very nature of the Congress, the House & the Senate, are in and of themselves a compromise. The brilliance of Madison was finding the balance between the two fundamentally opposed opinions on how the new government should be constructed. The house reflects one school of thought, the Senate the other. In the absurdity that was the concept of a democratic republic, the true patriots, the true statesmen found the necessary compromise needed to establish the government. It seems as though, 200 years on and counting, that compromise was not such a bad thing after all. So maybe in the bustle and chest beating of todays representatives looking to make political points at the price of  the country's better interests, a mandatory refresher course in United States history should be required along with the oath of office.