Actually, they have every right to stake out their deal points, and set limits for deal breakers.
Why should anything more than 50% of the concessions be by the Democrats?
Because the Democratics, you moron, are stuck on stupid.
We GOT into this dangerous mess, this impending disaster, by consistently agreeing to spend vastly more than we take in. Spending the Treasury funds is nothing less than a damn addiction to these Congressmen and women. We cannot afford this anymore. Our debt IS dangerous and MUST be immediately fixed.
But that's not what the Democrat way of "negotiating" seeks. Instead of seeking spending cuts that amount to something, the present crap -- errr-- crop of Democratics want to increase the debt limit (i.e., they want to be in the position to still SPEND) and they want to RAISE taxes (i.e., they want to be in the position to still SPEND). In short, they are acting exactly like addicts; the VERY behavior that got us into the mess, and THAT'S their notion of working to fix the problem.
Since they are clearly nuts, there is no "compromise" available.
They must bend to the will of the responsible party. They MUST go cold turkey.
Poor addicts. Withdrawal hurts. Go have a nice puke. Sweat it out. Too bad. Poor boo boo. Tough. Suck it.
If it's a really really BAD idea to give heroin to an addict going through withdrawals (and it is) then it's JUST as bad and possibly even more dangerous to permit these ass clowns ANY further ability to SPEND.
Break the damn addiction.
But "compromise?" No. Not a good idea. A very BAD idea, in fact.