What a joke.
Posted on 01/19/2019 7:38:19 AM PST by 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.
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His wife is a female type women?
Well, I did learn the word ‘condign’ from George. It’s the only thing he’s ever done that I liked.
“Spleneic”....bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-humored, angry, wrathful, cross, peevish, petulant, pettish, irritable, irascible, cantankerous, choleric, dyspeptic, testy, tetchy, snappish, waspish, crotchety, crabby, crabbed, querulous, resentful, rancorous, bilious, sour, bitter, acid, liverish...
Why, this perfectly describes you George...in laymans’ terms an asshole.
I had to look up splenetic. That said, the average reading level of Americans is fifth grade, and doesn’t seem to be getting any better. It’s a shame. George’s erudition is wasted on us plebes.
George needs a boot codignly placed up his hinder!
What a joke.
Reading this is like watching an episode of “Yound Sheldon”.
Now, that’s why we can’t have nice things anymore.
Take your Gillette razor and shove it up your ....
LOL Zappa said it in plain words and Tipper Gore tried to censor it!
Will thinks if you code the language it is not insulting.
This is also the only president who was attacked,CONSTANTLY, from the moment he was elected.
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And, who, before his run for the presidency was lauded by all democrats everywhere as they vied to cozy up to him for their pet causes. I don’t know many people who could withstand the never-ending onslaught that he has had to deal with over the last three years. I daresay that most of us would be cowed and only a few like Trump could give better than what is doled out on a daily basis in every form of media and in DC. My hat is off to him and I’m proud that he is my president. George Will with his prissy bowtie was the guy most likely to get a wedgie in junior high.
What snobbery could we expect from Will’s pen had the beast with one back from Arkansas won instead of Trump?
The comments by the superiorists who read and believe the compost are more alarming than Will’s piece.
Out of the font of Will’s spleen flows a stream of assidiocy.
So put THAT word in your FUNK & WAGNALLS, George.
I just noticed that the letters s-p-e-c-i-m-e-n
Can be re-arranged to spell
c m-e p-e-n-i-s
Someone call Dan Brown and get him working on the new thriller
The GeorgeWill Code
And Will is barely veiling it, it is insulting and he is a prima donna douche nozzle.
Thanks for showing up on the radar George.
That’s funny because I finally got Fox News while Freddie ‘the beetle” and Mort were still there. Honestly, they were a breath of fresh air after being subjected to just network news and CNN for so long. Earlier I used to watch them on the McLaughlin Report on PBS.
Stick with baseball George.
5.56mm
LOL!!
You almost got that right, Pres. Trump has been attacked constantly since he announced his candidacy. Mr. Will if you want to know one of the many the reasons this is a “splenetic” presidency, go look in the mirror! l
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