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...
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I’d rather read the lunatic ravings of Nancy Pelosi written in her drool than anything by George Will.
Instead, George Will picks the party of death and illegals.
This Trump hate is like a brain worm.....it borrows in there & you slowly go insane.
My dad taught me, “Never trust a man wearing a bow-tie”.
I imagine the readers of the daily camera in boulder will read and consider Will, just as they do Dana Milbank and EJ Dionne.
And just like any profession, these ambitious criminals become very good at their "jobs". One key aspect of destroying stable institutions in order to allow the power seekers to gain the 'throne' is internal corruption. How often has it been said that internal traitors are more dangerous than overt external enemies?
And so it comes to pass the same life lessons every generation must learn for themselves are presented for our collective edification. Even in a country with a well designed constitution & culture like the USA, the same dangers posed to all societies reappear.
So, the big question is not "oh, I'm so sad", but rather "what are we going to do about it?" Think not about Will and other craftily placed traitors. After all, this is what the enemy is supposed to do, isn't it? That is, attempt to defeat free people and enslave them for their own power hungry satisfaction.
If part of that strategy is to have internal plants, then it's not their fault they're effective. Rather, it's **our** fault for not being educated, informed and vigilant. And this is where I see FR going as an educational tool. An important first step was made in recognizing the designed & manufactured outrage over illegal children.
However, the next stages need to be the development of counter-measures that lead to victory. And one of those is reaching a point of resolution that recognizes the threat to liberty will not diminish until the enemy is thoroughly defeated. Every society throughout time reaches this point; it's not unique, strange or weird. Rather, all it takes is some internal fortitude to face our challenges head on.
George Will is promoting totalitarian dictatorship. He wants to be a preferred slave of the state. But, when the 1st amendment is gone will he have a job. Will will be preferred?
This is what happens when you become old and senile and nobody pays any attention to you anymore.
And that you are soon to meet your maker who you say does not exist.
Maybe Georgie can wash away his anguish with charitable acts, like taking in some illegal alien children into his $2 million home in a very race restricted section of Bethesda MD where the only illegals allowed are his lawn care servants.
Will’s TDS has reached an incurable level. He needs to retire and spend his time attending one baseball game after another.
What crossdressing pics do they have on you, Georgine?
Yea George, you are our intellectual leader.
Man. I used to really like this guy.
A lot.
“I wish there were other choices available to thwart the march of Socialism on this country.”
No matter who is elected they will be treated the same way. it is ideology that matters.
George Will: Not a conservative.
The Washington Compost has it too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.301365acca0e
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