Note to Republicans: Surely you remember this famous, famous quote from one of the most revered Presidents, statesman and, yes, Republicans this nation ever knew?
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Surely your remember that, right?
Do you not see--does no one in your political party see--that we we all, all of us, as Americans, have to work together for the benefit of the nation? Do you not see and know that we have to be Americans first and members of some political party, second?
Do you not see and know that?
This is especially true of our representatives in Congress. We must, must work together, as one people, Americans first and all, to compromise on the problems facing us and it certainly applies now, this year, and it absolutely must come about time and again this year for our budget debates.
Compromise isn't capitulation, ladies and gentlemen of the Republican Party. I say again (and again and again), we have to work together to solve our problems.
We just went through a fairly rough set of negotiations, just to get past the "fiscal cliff" Congress themselves created and that only they could fix. In the months ahead, there are at least 3 or four more of these negotiations we have to go through. Read: endure. It seems ever since the former Soviet Union collapsed, we have taken on, internally, people in our own country as our enemies, since our former enemy--the Communist Soviets--collapsed.
Our political party opposites are not our enemies.
They are our countrymen and women.
Fighting one another, from within, only strengthens those on the outside of the country, while it weakens us and our nation.
Don't you see that?
Link: "House Divided" Speech by Abraham Lincoln
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