Posted on 09/07/2015 2:44:16 AM PDT by markomalley
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Will said, “There’s no question that the president’s selective interpretation of the Constitutional provision that the executive shall see that the laws are faithfully execute his selective approach to that perhaps has encouraged a kind of lawlessness. People saying well, I can do whatever I wish. But surely it is a wholesome rule that executives should obey legitimate court orders. That’s true whether your name is Orval Faubus, the Democratic governor of Arkansas in the 1950s or George Wallace, the democratic governor of Alabama in the ’60s. Kim Davis, the Democratic county clerk in Kentucky.
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In years gone by I thought Will was the best thing since sliced bread. No more. Not by a long shot.
George - unless and until you address the lawlessness of the present administration and organizations like BLM and NOI, I suggest you zip it. You have no credibility.
He just can’t say anything negative about The Won. If he does, then they will expose the fact of his wife is a campaign strategist for Walker and that would totally implode that floundering campaign.
George Will reminds of Joseph Goebbels!
There is nothing like piling on. George Will is supercilious, urbane, and pretty much a stuffed shirt atop of which is placed a talking head.
He’s a world-class idiot. Oh, and he’s a snob, too.
He missed the part about being elected official vs. public employee.
Will, Kraut, Kristol et al are actually scared for their prestige and livelihoods. Once they were thought of as conservatives. Yet they were actually the loyal, but not too vocal, opposition who never really showed the indignation a real conservative would have.
They spoke in conservative platitudes and they played the part but only offering up pitiful plaints against the onslaught of debauchery, lawlessness and evil that is Democrat.
We are now only seeing any indignation from them because they are threatened. Their famed, pampered worlds are threatened and the indignation isn’t directed at Democrats.
The gloves are off with them now. GOPe all the way, and anything that makes them seem against Democrat ideals (gay rights) is verboten. So Davis is now Wallace instead of a white Rosa Parks.
They can go eff themselves.
Will insults conservatives by saying this. Davis, could have been found in contempt, and fined without being thrown in jail. The judge overstepped his bounds by creating a political prisoner. I think Anthony Kennedy is a jerk, and more concerned about himself, and his legacy, what ever that is. In the end, the supreme court ruled, and because they have been whittling down the 10th amendment, we have less and less chance to fight them without something like Levin’s liberty amendments. Will has shown himself for what he is, and by insulting Davis supporters, which I don’t consider myself, BTW, he cheapens the debate to nothing mre than name calling, a leftist tactic.
Fox News Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEcrWNy8m3E
“Kim Davis, the Democratic county clerk in Kentucky. She made a choice, unquestionably, her faith is important to her but evidently her paycheck is also because she did not resign her office. We’ve been here before, in 1892, a Massachusetts policeman claimed that his constitutional rights of speech and association had been violated by rules governing and restricting political activity by police. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts head against him in an opinion written by a Massachusetts judge named Oliver Wendell Holmes who said the policeman has a Constitutional right to engage in politics, the policeman does not have a Constitutional right to be a policeman. She has that same problem. ”
Here’s the thing if she had a problem with Same Sex Marriage (As I and many others do), she should have resigned. We elect people to enforce the laws, that means ALL the laws, not just the ones we like.
What is unconservative (If there is such a word) about what he said?
Will is just a slimy establishment POS.
Point well taken. Will’s rhetoric, just like his Anti-Trump screeds, alluding to Faubus and Wallace was really not neccesary. There no good actors here. The 5 SC justices that decided this for all of us, the judge who threw Davis in jail, and Davis herself. Compromise between Davis and the judge could and should have been worked out before this got to the point it did.
He just needs to explain in detail to us second class citizens how the Identity Politics hierarchy works, simple.
Will doesn’t have to explain anything to us plebes. Only his chardonnay sipping beltway associates, so they can all agree with one another.
George has become a looney liberal screwball. He is no longer worth listening to.
George Will sounds increasing like David Brooks.
Hard to believe i use to like this old fool.
Because the SCOTUS ruling (as well as any state law where it was approved legislatively) violated the natural law.
And a person should not be forced to violate natural law or resign.
Let me provide you a dystopian hypothetical:
Assume, for a minute, that Obama assassinates both Scalia and Thomas. Thomas has a "heart attack" and Scalia is killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street.
Obama nominates two radicals to replace him (let us assume he appoints the Hildabeast and Eric Holder).
A case comes up in the following term where an OB-GYN is charged with a civil rights violation for not performing an abortion on a woman (leave aside that there are other OB-GYNs who would do so).
The Hildabeast, writing for the majority, pens an opinion that states the following: In order to protect the Absolute Reproductive Rights of women, ALL OB-GYNs are henceforth required to provide abortion services to any patient who requests them.
Should a pro-life OB-GYN who is on staff at a public hospital (such as a University Hospital) be required to comply with this "law" or be forced to resign and surrender his license to practice medicine?
Should this hospital be required to force his compliance or fire him?
Should a state Secretary of Health be required to enforce this "law" or resign?
Should a governor be required to appoint a Secretary of Health who will enforce this law or resign?
Should the President of the United States send out the US Marshals to arrest anybody who refused to comply with this law?
I would certainly hope that your answer to the above five questions would be "no -- absolutely not".
But why? Not because of personal conscience, but because murder violates the natural law.
As Cicero said, Whoever neglects this law [the natural law], whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
We are morally required to disobey human laws that violate the natural law.
George will should know this.
“Boy George”
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