Compromise...

Upon arriving to work this morning I checked the news headlines as I always do. I noticed that Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid is working with Republican Senator Bill Frist on arranging a compromise to end this nonsense of ending the filibuster or the "nuclear" option if you will. It's great to see these two men working together to solve a problem, something that's been lacking up in Washington since old Dubya took office. I also noticed that Dubya is enlisting Tom "The Hammer" Delay to help drum up support for his beleaguered Social Security plan. This seems to be another in a long line of missteps by the President in his second term. He wants Americans to trust him on Social Security and he asks for help from one of the most ethically challenged politicians ever? If I were the President, I wouldn't want Tom Delay's face tied to my already crumbling Social Security ideas. I see the politics behind it, Delay will use some of his strong arm tactics to get some of these people up in Washington to march in line behind the plan (if there still is one, we still haven't seen the details of it yet), but publicly this isn't going to exactly convert those who mistrust the President on this issue. By asking for Delay's help at a time when the majority leader is facing many ethical questions, it stinks of desperation by the White House.