True leadership demands ability to compromise

Colorado’s government is broke.

Not only are we out of money, but our legislators seem to have forgotten why they spend the winter in Denver. They are supposed to work together for the benefit of all residents of our fair state. Instead, they’ve turned the Capitol into a rugby scrum, with each party more concerned with inflicting pre-primary damage on the other than finding real solutions to our most pressing problems.

Take the bruising debate over business tax exemptions. Gov. Bill Ritter, who gave up re-election to fight the hard budget battle, set Feb. 11 as the deadline for action on a…