They will only offer up deals that are guaranteed to be unpalatable to their opponents.
Former minister Peter Kilfoyle has said Mr Mandelson's return to the "inner circles" of government would be "unpalatable" to many people in the Labour movement and in public life generally.
The automatic spending cuts were included in the bill with the idea that they would be so unpalatable to lawmakers that they would have a strong incentive to avoid them by making a deal to reduce the budget deficit.
This should ensure that the protocol will be ratified, however unpalatable that may be.
No one would be held responsible for making unpalatable decisions, especially the Germans as Merkel heads into an election year.
Mr Brown also feels strongly that, as he is likely to be the one who has to persuade the electorate about the unpalatable prospect of later retirement and higher taxes, it should be on his terms and not Mr Blair's.
But Mr Netanyahu's people say that Israel's new government, elected by a right-lurching public, cannot be bound by such unsigned, unpalatable understandings.
The unpalatable truth seems to be that some Americans simply do not care to eat a balanced diet, while others, increasingly, cannot afford to.
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As unpalatable as it may be to consider, hospitals are of necessity and in fact credit grantors, not entirely dissimilar from auto finance lenders, mortgage originators, or credit card companies.
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The theory usually is that, even though such a party can be reasonably sure that its cheating would not be detected, it will, nonetheless, be deterred from doing so by the threat that other signatories will take unpalatable retaliatory steps.
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