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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Who is George Will? Should i care?
Will is a DC Snob. The idiot thinks he is America and we are not.
Sure did not last long at Fox!!!!
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.
George Will — a pretentious pompous writer who throws out a lot of words but says very little.
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.
They look down on us little people as they snicker over their $500 bottles of Chablis.
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.
such a Richard Cranium!
Quit BSing me George Will ain’t still alive...... is he?
George Will is a total splenetic diphsit. So there.
The lugubrious George Will thinks the President is shabby.
I can’t wait to here what he thinks of his deplorable voters.
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...
LOL “George “Nigel” Wills
Someone could probably write a book about it someday.
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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
Your dad was a wise man.
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.
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