George Will is a Fool

Self | 5/11/05 | Self

[johnny7]

How he can sit there and take 'Stephies' DNC bile is beyond me. Nothing wrong with a little bullying... Hume and Barnes do it to Juan(ita) Williams when he gets a 'case-of-the-vapors'.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Some writer or caller noted that the Repubs won't have the majority forever, and that eliminating the filibuster will hurt the Repubs in the long run.

The writer is as big a fool as Will. The 'Rats would use the "nuclear" option in a heartbeat if a GOP minority was trying to filibuster a liberal judicial appointee.

[captainblacksmith]

An actual filibuster (not the threat to filibuster) would be huge news and very damaging to the democrats because they would have to layout the specific qualifications they object to. They would look totally ridiculous, and that's why they aren't going to filibuster. This mission to disallow filibusters from now on is the dumbest thing I've ever seen the GOP do.

[Defiant]

I don't remember that, but it could well be. Will became more of a Bush 41 type Republican at some point, still affecting a WFB-style air, but without the firm grounding in principle that his earlier work had. He seems very ad hoc in his thought processes lately, which explains why 2 years ago he was against the filibuster.

[rightinthemiddle]

An intellectual, yes...a liberal Republican: NO WAY. He may be offtrack on this issue, but he's not a lib.

Have you actually read any of George Will's books? I recommend them highly.

[jackbill]

Great catch!

[holdonnow]

Agree. JUST VOTE!

[holdonnow]

I'll be damned. Great find!

[kristinn]

Thanks. You'd laugh yourself silly if I told you how I found it.

[subterfuge]

"Will they politely pass whatever nominee the Democrat President sends them? No, as long as there is even one Republican in the Senate, they will now also filibuster any Democrat nominee. "

Total BS RJL. Our RINOS don't have the balls to filibuster.

[subterfuge]

"The solution is to make the demo's actually filibuster. Force them to take the floor and drone one and on about nothing, reading from the dictionary or the phone book or whatever. Force them to keep the senate tied up 24 hours a day with this nonsense while the CSPAN camera's are rolling. Let the camera's show the American people these obstructionists in action. "

YES!!!

[holdonnow]

http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200503210842.asp

[holdonnow]

Send me an email and tell me, if you can.

[kellynla]

Thank you!

[KC Burke]

I appreciate your argumentation on this issue. GW is still to sentimentally tied to the vision of the Senate from the founding. In this instance he fails to recognize it for the morphed body it has been remade as over the last 200 years. At the time of the Impeachment he spoke of this hamstringing of the Senate's structure and nature and did so correctly -- here he forgets his own analysis due to that sentimentality.

As I recall, he served as a congressional staffer early in his career, the reverence instilled at that time is clouding his better analysis that all of us know he can do.

[kristinn]

I'll freepmail you.

[joesbucks]

CyberAnt: It's one of two things. It's either the actual reality of what this is all about and some since they have nothing to lose are letting go of past facades OR we simply were sipping the kool-aid and they were screwing us all along.

[funkywbr]

Will like many in the Senate is just another Rep who doesnt know how to handle being the BOSS.

I personally think we ought to send Bolton down to the Senate and slam all those weak wristed Reps into BOOT CAMP!

Just like the LIEberals do on all their TV shows when dealing with BAD CHILDREN.

[PISANO]

There was a time, before PC and BJC's assault on the word "IS" that these words would be SELF-EVIDENT and not require thousands of interpertations and assumptions.

"The President shall have POWER, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided 2/3rds of the Senators present CONCUR; AND he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, SHALL appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers & Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court and all lother officedrs of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise proveded for."

It is OBVIOUS that the mention of the 2/3rds requirement for Treaties.....MEANS WHAT IT SAYS......and the EXCLUSION of the 2/3rds requirement for Judges etc.......... MEANS WHAT IS SAYS.

Any other interpertation is nothing more that politically motivated GARBAGE and a testament to the demise of common sense.

[1Old Pro]

So he changed his mind to reflect the liberal position. The MSM would applaud this and toast to his "growth".