Posted on 05/10/2018 6:25:08 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.
Last June, a Trump Cabinet meeting featured testimonials offered to Dear Leader by his forelock-tugging colleagues. His chief of staff, Reince Priebus, caught the spirit of the worship service by thanking Trump for the “blessing” of being allowed to serve him. The hosannas poured forth from around the table, unredeemed by even a scintilla of insincerity. Priebus was soon deprived of his blessing, as was Tom Price. Before Price’s ecstasy of public service was truncated because of his incontinent enthusiasm for charter flights, he was the secretary of health and human services who at the Cabinet meeting said, “I can’t thank you enough for the privileges you’ve given me.” The vice president chimed in but saved his best riff for a December Cabinet meeting when, as The Post’s Aaron Blake calculated, Pence praised Trump once every 12 seconds for three minutes: “I’m deeply humbled. . . . ” Judging by the number of times Pence announces himself “humbled,” he might seem proud of his humility, but that is impossible because he is conspicuously devout and pride is a sin.
Between those two Cabinet meetings, Pence and his retinue flew to Indiana for the purpose of walking out of an Indianapolis Colts football game, thereby demonstrating that football players kneeling during the national anthem are intolerable to someone of Pence’s refined sense of right and wrong.
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George Will has jumped the shark.
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You speak as if this has only happened recently.
George is describing himself!
I think Will has lost it.
George Will gets my vote for the worst person in (*cough*) journalism.
Wow! He’s gone off the deep end.I guess he’s not getting his expected Iran payoff after all.
He never had it. Just because his voice sounds like an intellectual does not mean he is actually all that wise.
I really despise this jerk. Another rotten atheist jealous of an inspirational Christian.
The Establishment Republicans have to begin the work of discrediting the vice president as well so bat after impeachment Mike Pence can’t continue Trump’s program and actually for them they would rather have a Democrat
What a dispicable person.. he must hate having to live with himself.
George, just because you know big words, it doesn’t mean you are smart.
George Will festers himself with his venomous, mindless hatred of Trump. He will no doubt drown in his own bile.
Take away his thesaurus!
Does anybody even read him any more?
And does anybody who reads him care about what he says?
Bucking for a gig at NPR.
Who else would have him?
Georgey is a DC snob, a whore to his social circle jerk.
Jumped The Shark!
George Will, like so many pretend conservatives among the elite snobs, is a disgusting individual. The irony is that the behavior he slams in this piece is exactly the go-along to get-along behavior practiced by nearly all professional politicians that people like Will have made a living covering and socializing with for decades. In short, Will is just another DC hypocrite.
Playing up to his Chablis and Brie buddies to secure another weekend invitation.
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