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George Will: The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen
Washington Compost ^ | January 18, 2019 | George Will

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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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: fakeconservative; fakenews; georgewill; gopestablishment; rino; tds; trump; will
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To: EdnaMode

Who is George Will? Should i care?


41 posted on 01/19/2019 7:52:02 AM PST by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: EdnaMode

Will is a DC Snob. The idiot thinks he is America and we are not.


42 posted on 01/19/2019 7:52:06 AM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: EdnaMode

43 posted on 01/19/2019 7:52:25 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: simpson96

Sure did not last long at Fox!!!!


44 posted on 01/19/2019 7:52:49 AM PST by ontap
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To: EdnaMode

George Will wants the President to commit political suicide to address a problem his Democratic successor will in all likelihood undo.

Good thing Will never has to worry about pleasing the hoi polloi. He’s above it all.


45 posted on 01/19/2019 7:52:50 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: EdnaMode

George Will — a pretentious pompous writer who throws out a lot of words but says very little.


46 posted on 01/19/2019 7:52:56 AM PST by plain talk
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To: EdnaMode

Old George, in the tent, alone with his morbid, pessimistic thoughts.

Outside the tent, he is misses participating in the rebirth of a Nation, and the rejoicing of Killing the Dragon!!.

Old George, he was never a saint.


47 posted on 01/19/2019 7:53:04 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: be-baw

They look down on us little people as they snicker over their $500 bottles of Chablis.


48 posted on 01/19/2019 7:53:30 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Baynative
He looks like he's got skeletons in his closet in that picture lol. Has he ever been seen with Ted Koppel, as they look quite similar, if you stuck a pair of glasses on Koppel.


49 posted on 01/19/2019 7:53:33 AM PST by Blue Highway
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Sounds like someone is lining up to gain favor for a hot liberal chick for some of the good stuff. Intercontinental wars have been raged over a woman so this defection is no shocker.


50 posted on 01/19/2019 7:53:44 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: EdnaMode

such a Richard Cranium!


51 posted on 01/19/2019 7:53:54 AM PST by big bad easter bunny
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To: EdnaMode

Quit BSing me George Will ain’t still alive...... is he?


52 posted on 01/19/2019 7:54:08 AM PST by heshtesh (Brtan)
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To: EdnaMode

53 posted on 01/19/2019 7:54:15 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: EdnaMode
"Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency"

George Will is a total splenetic diphsit. So there.

54 posted on 01/19/2019 7:54:29 AM PST by OKSooner (Whatever happened to, "The midterms are safe."?)
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To: mylife

The lugubrious George Will thinks the President is shabby.

I can’t wait to here what he thinks of his deplorable voters.


55 posted on 01/19/2019 7:54:41 AM PST by seowulf
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To: EdnaMode

Boy, Will is really beginning to seem like the crazy old man on the front porch, yelling at kids and cars as they go by...


56 posted on 01/19/2019 7:55:19 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: RightGeek

LOL “George “Nigel” Wills


57 posted on 01/19/2019 7:55:50 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: be-baw

Someone could probably write a book about it someday.
= = =

I think they already have:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Sleeping Beauty.

Jack and the Beanstalk.

The Ugly Duckling

The Little Mermaid

The Little Match Girl

Cinderella


58 posted on 01/19/2019 7:56:23 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: dfwgator
My dad always told me, “Never trust a man wearing a bow-tie.”

Your dad was a wise man.

59 posted on 01/19/2019 7:57:01 AM PST by seowulf
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To: EdnaMode

Why does this “nattering nabob” think that anybody gives a rat’s a$$ what he writes or says? His byline is enough to ignore; writing in the Compost guarantees that it is garbage.

Calling himself a “Conservative” is like saying a skunk smells like a rose. No amount of repeating the lie will change the fact that he is no Conservative/rose, but he most certainly is a skunk. Like a skunk, it is best to steer a wide path away.


60 posted on 01/19/2019 7:57:05 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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