[PBzeer]

It's only a pipedream, in so much as the voters allow them to keep doing it. The voters accept words over deeds and so that is what they get.

Take Social Security and Medicare. They are like a hole in the hull of the Treasury. You either plug it, or let it sink the boat. Compromise only burns up a bunch of bilge pumps, trying to keep the thing afloat. And the longer you keep compromising on it, the bigger, and harder to plug, the hole gets.

Much of what Congress is supposed to do, does lend itself to specific answers. And until the voters make clear that they not only expect, but will not settle for anything less, we will continue to get less. And as long as we keep electing people who serve themselves ahead of their constituients, we will keep getting politicians instead of statesmen.