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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George Will can EABOD and die in a fire. Look up the acronym.
I will say this again “Big words are hard to read, especially side by side”
but we get yer drift George, you are better than us. /s
George Will illustrates the depth of the scumbag he,Will, is.
Trump happens to be one of the most courageous POTUS we’ve ever seen. What other President has taken on the swamp as this man has with very little help from his own party.
George Will = FAG
OMG! LOL!!!
Dulce Et Decorum Est...
Sweet!
Trump has shined the light on every RINO cockroach in the country.
They hate him for exposing them as nothing but mouthpieces for the Establishment party and closet Progressives.
George Will - Not as smart as he proclaims with his toupe and bow tie.
The socialist dream is to have the collapse happen when one of their own is in charge, like Woodrow Wilson, who could say the system has broken down and we have no choice but to implement Socialism.
The socialist nightmare is to have the collapse happen when the President is someone who would respond with a declaration that we can no longer pay for the welfare state, and orders the Army to round up illegal invaders and deposit them across the border.
Why do all these so called journalist make ever comment about our great President personal my gosh can you amagine being in Trumps shoes and have to deal with this nonsense ever day
Embarrassed George Will would think the American Government should be styled on 1940’s movies about ‘elites’ ruling colonial territories in places like India and Africa...
Not that I'm saying George Will is delusional or totally out of touch but... well, guess I am. The wood lined 'clubs' and drawing rooms of DC were not filled with Statesmen like Churchill but with rapists and money grubbing thugs. Get real George Will...
Yep but you forgot “purple lipped rat eared dogeater”
Honestly, who gives the slightest crap about anything George Will has to say? Just ignore him.
George, your sweater has moth holes in it...hang it up for good. You globalists are not gonna win.
Old William F Buckley Jr was verbose, intellectual and some might say a bit effeminate, but I will never forget when he threatened to dot Gore Vidals eye!
Noam Chomsky TOO!
Witness France and England
Poor ol Nancy did not get to go to Brussels.
To advance her global cabal agenda
“Will spends all day looking up obscure big words to sound superior.”
The fella does love words doesn’t he.
He reminds me of those obnoxious people who learn a new word from the dictionary every week and just HAVE to use them in everyday conversation.
They think it makes them sound intelligent when it really makes them look stupid.
Was he writing about Kennedy, LBJ, Clinton, obama?
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