Flip Flop

Or “before I was against it, I was for it” Healthcare Mandates: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/health/policy/health-care-mandate-was-first-backed-by-conservatives.html http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/05/29/which-republicans-favored-a-health-insurance-mandate-heres-a-list/ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/01/newt-gingrich-supported-an-individual-mandate-as-recently-as-may-2009/252233/ Political Philosophies: http://flhspatterson.pbworks.com/f/politicalparties%5B1%5D.htm http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/467716.html The links listed above show how politicians from both parties spend more time and energy reversing, retracting, and changing positions that they do in actually crafting legislation. While this display of hypocrisy is not confined to one party or another, it seems that lately the Republicans have somehow managed to flip-flop more than Democrats. One would think that the consistent reversals of positions would result in compromise but that is too much to hope for.