Posted on 06/22/2018 7:48:18 AM PDT by re_tail20
Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections that can reshape Congress, the policy has given independents and temperate Republicans — these are probably expanding and contracting cohorts, respectively — fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which they should vote.
The principle is: The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution's Article I powers they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers. They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them.
Consider the melancholy example of House Speaker Paul Ryan, who wagered his dignity on the patently false proposition that it is possible to have sustained transactions with today's president, this Vesuvius of mendacities, without being degraded. In Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons," Thomas More, having angered Henry VIII, is on trial for his life. When Richard Rich, who More had once mentored, commits perjury against More in exchange for the office of attorney general for Wales. More says: "Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... But for Wales!" Ryan traded his political soul for ... a tax cut. He who formerly spoke truths about the accelerating crisis of the entitlement system lost everything in the service of a president pledged to preserve the unsustainable status quo.
Ryan and many other Republicans have become the president's poodles, not because James Madison's system has failed but...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Daily Camera has a paywall. Hope people can get through and read it.
Never thought I’d have to type the term GEORGE WILL BARF.
Will donate to the NRCC and NRSC later today.
Further proof that any atheist who calls themselves a conservative is really a liberal.
Will is deranged.
I think I’ll cast it against George Will instead.
Go away George...just go away.
Thanks George for the ‘principled conservative’ take on American politics.
I wish there were other choices available to thwart the march of Socialism on this country.
He's what he's always been...it just took the election of Donald Trump to bring back stabbing rats like him out into the light.
Kraut’s twin spews more NeverTrumpism.
How dare he use St. Thomas More and Savanarola as examples against Trump. Neither would encounter voting for the abortion party in November, and Savanarola would be capable of the hyperbolic language routinely employed by President Trump. Where was Will when Obama was pushing his illegal executive orders? Reap what you sow, Georgy boy.
Every day I enjoy seeing people who were once thought to be our patriotic countrymen exposed as the reprobates that they are.
Even though there’s an element of sadness to it, there is a larger feeling of relief in knowing who the enemy really is.
The only “mis rule” I see George is that the Republican controlled Congress can’t pass the President’s judges and policies fast enough.
Go suck swamp water George.
5.56mm
Cast your vote against Bush League Republicans in the primary.
Until they are replaced they will keep working for illegal aliens and their employers.
DO NOT donate to the NRSC or NRCC, they will use that money to elect more Bush League Republicans who are hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
“The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule ... “
I start reading George Will’s articles (actually, all articles) with an open mind. However, his sentence that I put in above is pure emotion with no truth. George is giving intellectuals a bad name.
Wow. Dreadful.
Dementia....or...he really was a commie plant all along
Who’s gonna listen to you, George?
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