A few months ago George Will was making the case that eliminating these judicial filibusters was a bad idea. Then yesterday he criticized the Bush administration for failing to nominate a "truly conservative" Supreme Court justice who only could have been confirmed if the GOP exercised the "nuclear option" and overturned the filibuster rule.
In taking these schizophrenic positions on the issue of judicial nominations, Mr. Will has exposed himself as an utter, two-faced fraud. The man is so full of sh!t that I can smell him from here.
He writes very well and often makes good points, but never trust an inside-the-Beltway jack@ss who wears a bowtie and lists "professional pundit" as his occupation.
As for the so-called nuke option, the GOP had 2 years of talk, talk, talk before the moderates got together and made their deal. While Orrin Hatch was bloviating about discrimination against hispanics (which was ludicrous), something real could have been done. I don't really think Frist or Hatch or most of them really wanted to get the kind of judges we want. I think they are posers and are actually happy with the end result. They get the kind of expansive judges they like, they get to keep pretending they don't like it, and they get to blame someone else for it. Perfect for them, and we're the suckers.
One more thing: If the nuke option would fix all this, why not do it now? What's the hold up? Is it because they don't have the votes? Then what difference does it make? The GOP made this big deal about the nuclear option, as if it was something radical, and totally lost the debate on it. They should have treated it like no big deal and just done it. And if they didn't have the votes, then what's all the whining about. Moderates will be moderate. That's what they do. And besides all that, I happen to agree with Will. He's right, and the GOP is wrong, just like they are wrong trying to say the prez should pretty much get whoever he wants. We should have advocates like Schumer on our side, instead of fake, ineffective pansies like Hatch, Frist, et al. And to now try to blame a columnist is just pathetic.
What a friggin' weasel. Not that I'm surprised.
I see that George Will has joined the ranks of pundits who forget the great unwashed can use the net to search down their past opinions.
And now he has bite marks in his arse to rival those of Dan Rather. In a way, what Will did was worse. Rather at least was going after those he thought to be foes. Will is stabbing those he professes to be allies right between the shoulder blades with his two-faced columns.