George Will: The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

Washington Compost ^ | January 18, 2019 | George Will

[EdnaMode]

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.

The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.

And that senatorial dignity is too brittle to survive the disapproval of a president not famous for familiarity with actual policies. Congressional Republicans have their ears to the ground — never mind Winston Churchill’s observation that it is difficult to look up to anyone in that position.

[sport]

Nor is the Kenyan, a/k/a, the traitor’s choice.

[windsorknot]

George Will is an atheist who considers himself a Supreme Being.

[sparklite2]

, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit

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George, you’re no better than CNN. Trump submitted a budget that slashed spending and did not add to the debt. Speaker Ryan took one look at it, shrugged, and threw it in the trash. You want to bash someone for the deficit, bash the Congress.

[hawkaw]

Dear George:

I had reservations about Trump. I got over it and so should you. Instead of hacking Trump up, maybe you should work with him and things will get done that you like. That is what Mitch and Lindsay are doing and it is working out just fine.

Have a nice day, George

[sport]

And a better person than George can ever hope to be.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Ya all ever heard of this writin guy George Will? Boy howdy does he use fancy 10 dollar words and he really likes to hear hisself talk. I bet he’s one of them fellers who has a runnin convorsation with hisself all day long cause he probly don’t think to much of anybody elses opinion and that theres nobody else that’s worth talking to.

[LTC.Ret]

Dear George Will,

If we were writing what we think about YOU every day, by now you would be in rehab somewhere trying to get off all your antidepressants.

While Pres. Trump continues to successfully rebuff your ankle biting and run the greatest country in the world -— fulfilling his promises on top of it all!!!

[ssfromla]

much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications.

And we can't thank him enough. Thank you President Trump for not letting the left and the fake right like George walk all over us anymore.

[Blue Highway]

To think he thinks of us deplorables as shabby, but welcomes the illegals with their unsanitary and disease ridden ways is incomprehensible.

[sport]

George is beyond the point of testosterone shots helping him. He just needs to go ahead with the full feminization process.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

I remember that before the Reagan Revolution Will was about the best you could hope for as a conservative voice. As the Republicans moved right, he has moved left.

[sport]

And I believe that you could add fake man.

[crz]

George needs attention again.

[Blue Highway]

you got that right!

[upchuck]

In his writing, George borrows heavily from the book, "Big words, a compendium of words that nobody but you knows and will make you look smart."

incessantly splenetic presidency, daily mortifications

Give me a break.

I ran some of this article through the Text Readability Consensus Calculator. It rated 'difficult to read.' Hey George, quit being a linguistic showoff and write for your audience.

[mylife]

the wall is .01 percent 0f the budget.

eminent domain is an issue, but they are blowing smoke up our ass.

fix the immigration issue.

IT IS OUT OF CONTROL

[TalBlack]

A man who speaks plainly and does what he says he will do is shabby in George Wills universe. That’s one shabby universe, man.
The fact that the shabby man was empowered by ALL of the other politicians who conciously lied to their fellow Americans in order to serve a small group of elites doesn’t weigh on George Will. Creep.

[Eddie01]

George Will’s audience is his wife.

He writes these beta male tropes so she’ll let him watch her put on her stockings.

[Grampa Dave]

George Will, The shabbiest "conservative" arrogant POS/TDS Faux journalist ever, is an inexpressibly sad specimen.

[mylife]

Bingo