Re: Kucinich votes yes for Health Bill.
Let me bring this back to real world politics in the United States where no one ever gets everything s/he wants.
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To compromise is to make a deal where someone gives up part of, or all of its [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand"]demand[/URL]. In [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument"]arguments[/URL], [B]compromise[/B] is a concept of finding [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement"]agreement[/URL] through [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication"]communication[/URL], through a mutual [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance"]acceptance[/URL] of terms—often involving variations from an original [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_%28goal%29"]goal[/URL] or desire. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremism"]Extremism[/URL] is often considered as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonym"]antonym[/URL] to compromise, which, depending on context, may be associated with concepts of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_%28metaphysics%29"]balance[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerance"]tolerance[/URL]. In the negative [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connotation"]connotation[/URL], compromise may be referred to as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulation_%28surrender%29"]capitulation[/URL], referring to a "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_%28spirituality_and_psychology%29"]surrender[/URL]" of objectives, principles, or materiale, in the process of negotiating an agreement. In human relationships "compromise" is frequently said to be an agreement that no party is happy with, this is because the parties involved often feel that they either gave away too much or that they received too little[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise#cite_note-pmhut-0"][1][/URL].