Congressman Brent Spence of Kentucky on how to negotiate when approached with amendments to the Bretton Woods bill in 1945.
I wouldn’t agree to anything…. You see, if we accept something now it puts us just in the same position as if we hadn’t accepted it…. Every amendment we accept kind of weakens us. [W]e might say, ‘Well, we’ll accept them if that’s all the amendments.’ But if we are going to have to fight it out, we just as well fight it out on all of them.
Could someone explain this to the people in the White House, please?
(Emphasis added.)
The Edge of the American West 
21 comments
November 3, 2011 at 10:28 am
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Is EotAW working on a new bumper sticker for the 2012 campaign? “Get disappointed by someone new” was a one-campaign-only slogan.
November 3, 2011 at 11:04 am
silbey
Still disappointed: Obama 2012
November 3, 2011 at 11:05 am
eric
A Proven Disappointment.
November 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm
ari
Four more years of disappointment!
November 3, 2011 at 12:05 pm
ari
Or maybe plural, “disappointments”?
November 3, 2011 at 1:22 pm
elizardbreath
Obama 2012: Better the devil you know.
November 3, 2011 at 1:40 pm
politicalfootball
Evening in America!
November 3, 2011 at 3:20 pm
elizardbreath
Obama 2012: Could be worse. Could be raining.
November 3, 2011 at 4:10 pm
kathy a.
aaack. it could be SOOO much worse. look at any one of the contenders….
November 3, 2011 at 6:55 pm
ari
We know that, kathy. And I don’t think anyone here will vote for someone other than president. And yet, he disappoints and disappoints again.
November 3, 2011 at 7:02 pm
kathy a.
my political position for the next year is: stop the clown car.
i hear you, though.
November 3, 2011 at 7:12 pm
ari
stop the clown car
Put it on a bumper sticker. Seriously, I hear you.
November 3, 2011 at 7:17 pm
kathy a.
damn, but i’m glad you’re back.
November 4, 2011 at 7:33 am
booferama
Obama 2012: Disappointment we can believe in.
November 4, 2011 at 9:06 am
ari
I actually think that’s quite good, as it seems to encapsulate “the devil you know”. But I might change it to “A disappointment we can believe in.”
November 4, 2011 at 9:08 am
ari
Or maybe, “Obama: Crushing hope for change since 2008!”
November 4, 2011 at 9:25 am
politicalfootball
The Timidity Of Hopelessness!
November 4, 2011 at 10:10 am
Russell Belding
Sadly, my “Get Disappointed” bumper sticker remains ever relevant. Maybe it will help when I finally trade in my car.
November 4, 2011 at 11:30 am
Greg
If you are disappointed, it’s your own fault.
November 4, 2011 at 11:34 am
eric
Oh look! The fall trolliage is out!
November 4, 2011 at 2:02 pm
ben
Maybe Greg is just a stoic, or a Pyrrhonian skeptic, or something like that.