Harry Reid, the Grand Moff Tarkin of the Senate, has nixed the bi-partisan jobs bill, calling a do-over to get rid of any annoying provisions that rub his liberal cohorts the wrong way.  Bernie Sanders (D-Kremlin) for example, wasn’t too keen on the Patriot act provisions.  Harry removed it, and not because he’s against pig piling things onto legislation that would fail the Sesame Street “one of these things is not like the other” legislative litmus test.  He’s actually a huge fan of stapling dictionary sized amendments to anything that stops moving, with about as much in common with the original intent as the void between what comes out of Barack Obama’s mouth and reality.  Harry has never been big on original intent anyway so this may seem too obvious to bother mentioning but since that ship has now sailed let’s get to the point.   He removed it because his dictionary defines compromise as: ‘an act that only moves to the left.’  So giving in to Comrade Sanders was a no-brainer—which given the echo chamber between Senator Reid’s ears ties up all the loose ends nicely. 

This brings us to the greater issue of “compromise” under the umbrella (a fruity drink sized umbrella barely large enough for a spear with a cherry and an orange slice on it)  of bi-partisanism.    Obama likes to wave that idea around like an air freshener, but the stench coming from congressional democrats can’t be hidden by a few well-meaning words with predictably measured pauses between them.  The Liberals in congress could care less about compromise.  They are happy to give it lip service, but little else.  So Reid’s actions suggest another Star Wars reference, this time from Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes back. 

Lando:  “That wasn’t part of our deal!” 

Vader:  “The deal has been altered.  Pray I do not alter it further.”

Reid is actually just tweaking the Jobs Bill to make sure he’s got enough slush fund money to continne building his new Death Star.  The one the liberals are using to destroy the country with.

So compromise is still dead, but expect “bi-partisan” to keep popping up like a serial slasher movie-villain that just won’t die.  Bi-partisan will appear in the context of how Republicans’ have been unwilling to work with democrats to craft bi-partisan (insert name of country killing policy here) legislation, without a word about the hundreds of Republican alternatives the democrat majority has shot down annually in their quest to socialize the country.  This refrain will increase in frequency until November of 2010.   At which point the word compromise will return as the new liberal minority party starts a tinnitus like shrill refrain about how Republican’s won’t compromise on anything and how it’s destroying freedom and wrecking middle class families—which is exactly what got the liberals tossed out of office in the first place. (Left wingers love projection)

Even without a change in majority, at least Harry Reid will have gone the way of Grand Moff Tarkin (politically speaking).  But that’s what happens when you try to destroy the economy with your evil death ray.  The survivors use the force of the ballot box to kick you sorry ass out of power.  And it can’t happen soon enough.