Is Compromise A Good Idea?

According to an article in today’s Power Line Blog, the Senate may follow the footsteps of the House of Representatives and show bipartisan opposition to the current economic stimulus bill.  (Even though the adds put out by George Soros are claiming that only the Republicans opposed the bill, the fact remains that eleven Democrats also opposed it.  Since only one party voted for it, and two parties voted against it, the opposition was bi-partisan, the support was partisan.)   Democrat Ben Nelson seems to be trying to put together another ‘gang of 14’ effort to change the bill in order to make it acceptable to more Democrats and possibly some Republicans.  I am not totally comfortable with this idea.  I didn’t support the original ‘gang of 14’–I felt it was an example of the Republicans choking and ignoring their conservative base.  This might turn out to be equally bad, but at least both parties are beginning to see how awful this current bill is.