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 countrys 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 wont be here), and his partys congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate the worlds 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 Churchills observation that it is difficult to look up to anyone in that position.
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It is held captive by Trump.
“They look down on us little people...”
Which shows how small they really are.
it’s time to show these establishment types how big we can be.
Trump/Pence 2020
Senatorial dignity??? Like Sen. “underage hooker” Menendez, former senator Al “the groper” Franken?
As Mencken said, “These men in government), in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers. Their purpose, first, last and all the time, is to promote their private advantage, and to that end, and that end alone, they exercise all the vast powers that are in their hands.”
Will spends all day looking up obscure big words to sound superior.
George is a little man who tries to make himself look big.
Would those odds be better with H. Rodham C., Jeb! Or the mailmans kid?
You are doing it wrong.
Put a sign out that says $20 and they will (steal) haul it off for free
Buchanan? Pierce? Harding? Tyler?
Meh. That is the new normal, on both sides. Bush caught a break because of 9/11, but otherwise, that's the way the country rolls now.
George Will is still alive? Who knew?
Why should they?
George really has his panties in a twist.
But hey, He has a way with words...
All of the critics of President Trump are used to dealing with lifetime professional politicians. They have absolutely no clue how to deal with a true businessman, or human for that matter, in an elected office! There is a clear and unique difference between pols and the rest of humanity!
He can smell the Walmart Trump supporters. He drinks wine from a golden chalice while the little people @ Walmart drink it from Pringles containers lol.
He is talking about Trump, but he means us. We are apparently the shabbiest and most splenetic electorate in US history, and Will wishes the Deep State could hurry up and replace us with illegals, to spare him the further embarrassment of having to live among and write columns for such a society of savages. :)
Little man flings pebbles.
george will is your typical, pathetic, disgusting, inside-the-beltway intellectual snob who self-preens constantly using big words and an effete composure. Being a miserable sneering twit is no way to go through life. Who listens to his bilge? Only those with a defective cortex.
Get back to me when Trump starts shagging interns in the oval office, sells top secret missile technology to an aggressor nation in return for campaign contributions or makes secret deliveries of billions of dollars in cash to our enemies, George.
I knew this guy was a lost cause and not an American the day I read about how he hates blue jeans.
He’s a pantywaist POS.
Will is a doddering old tool. Never cared for him.
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