'Can somebody give me one compromise that Obama has offered?'

The liberal punditry is up in arms, pillorying the Democrats for proposed accommodations to the incoming class of Republicans. Obama himself is under fire, as he is reportedly ready to compromise and negotiate. Well, last night Mark Levin addressed this fallacy in stark terms (transcript courtesy Biff Spackle).

We just had a massive election landslide, where the American people said, "We don't want any of this." Does it sound to you like the Democrats got the message? Does it sound to you like Obama got the message?

I was sitting here today making a list of all the compromises that Obama has made. He wants to compromise, he wants to negotiate. I'm sitting here and thinking: well, there is nothing on my list. I can't think of one!

Can somebody give me one compromise that Obama has offered? Just one? Exactly what is it?

Is he prepared to compromise on Obamacare? No! They're moving forward.

Is he prepared to compromise on the regulation of CO2 by the EPA? No! They're plowing ahead.

We're told he's going to rule by fiat, using Executive Orders and regulations to get around the new Congress and the voters.

So where's his compromise? What are we to negotiate with? See, he's an ideologue. He's not your garden-variety political hack. He's an ideologue. Which means he's not going to compromise on big issues. And that's the reality of having a guy like this in office.

If I were in charge of the Republican Party, I would put it bluntly. To paraphrase Harry Truman on August 6, 1945:

Thirty days ago an American juggernaut dropped a bomb on Democrats in Congress and destroyed their usefulness to the Marxist Left. That bomb had the power to swing 63 House seats and 680 state legislative seats and left in its wake what the National Journal called "devastation".

The Democrats began this war in 2007 when they promised to run the "most ethical Congress ever" with "no new deficit spending." Instead they permitted and encouraged rampant criminality and an all-time record of $5 trillion in new deficit spending.

But the end of their reign of fiscal terror is near. The electorate dropped the political equivalent of an atomic bomb on the Democrats last month. The force which gave birth to this country -- an insatiable desire for freedom -- has been loosed against those who brought fiscal ruin to the nation.

The greatest marvel is not the size of the Democrats' defeat, nor its cost, but the achievement of the people -- a true, grass-roots effort to repudiate Marxism and Statism -- into a workable plan. People of all races, religions, economic backgrounds and interests worked to advance freedom in an amazingly short time. It is doubtful if another such combination could have been assembled anywhere in the world. What has been done is among the greatest achievements of a people fighting incipient tyranny in history. It was done under pressure and without failure.

We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every destructive endeavor the Democrat Statists have created. We shall destroy their agencies, their bureaucracies, their unconstitutional czars, their ideologues who have burrowed into regulatory bodies unknown to most Americans. Let there be no mistake: we shall completely destroy the Democrats' political power.

It was to spare the Democrats from utter destruction that the ultimatum was yesterday issued. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum, raising taxes on small business owners, entrepreneurs and hard-working couples around the country.

If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of political ruin, the likes of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this 2010 offensive will follow subsequent forces in such number that and power as they have not yet seen and with the political skills of which they are already well aware.

The power of the people will continue to grow as more citizens educate themselves regarding the unholy alliance of Democrats and the fourth branch of government -- the public sector unions. Both align themselves against the citizen, against the taxpayer, and threaten the destruction of our country, our currency and our way of life.

We pledge to politically eradicate the Marxist left that inhabits the body of the Democrat Party like some sort of horror film zombie.

And in 2012, 2014, 2016 and in every subsequent election, we will return this great Republic to the Constitutional basis that our Framers intended. Our contract with America is this: it is the Constitution.

No political quarter asked, and none given.

This is a war for the country's future. We can have a failed Marxist welfare state of the sort melting down in Europe. Or we can begin to right the ship by returning to the principles of Constitutional government, the wisdom of which becomes more and more obvious by the day.