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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I had to stop after the first sentence. I got tired of looking up words. He thinks he can substitute big words for rational thought. But a thesaurus is no substitute for reason.
Amen. Well said.
Is George Will suffering from dementia? If not, he’s a worse sore loser than Hillary and Gore combined.
Paging Bill O’Reilly.
“Word of the Day” motherlode.
If only there were illegal pundits jumping the border, scribing and waxing pontifications for a bowl of beans and masa. Perhaps then these cognoscenti, custodians of public trust will understand why Americans of all backgrounds prefer POTUS Trump and not some imposter who would willingly hand over the keys to a modern day Alaric, America’s treasury and security.
George Will: an irrelevant establishment toady...
I think George Will’s toupee glue has sunk into what passes for his brain, leaving him with the functioning areas of how to look up big words, talk pompous, and act like a four-flushing phony disappointed that with the Obamas and Clintons out of power, he is no longer invited to private dinners where he can be the token, totally ineffectual “conservative”.
Even Obama could smell the weasel stench on Will and invited him to be part of the propaganda team he was forming when first elected.
What a petty, pinched-up man...
George, in his seething rage against Trump-Pence, spoke a word that betrays his love for commie heirarchy; “lickspittle”. In Cold War days, Stalin, Kruschev, et al, used that term frequently when ranting against non-commie “western” leaders.
So this is yet another way that the establishment is threatening anyone who dares to side with Trump.
Bump
His verbal gymnastics impress me because the thoughts underlying them don’t. Like a thin veil once removed display an insipid and vain man-child.
That is perfect! (Excellent, ideal, supreme...)
What a pretentious twit he is.
I wish McCain would take George Will with him.
George Will couldn’t muster up the good sense to sit in the shadows for a time and watch as his type of conservatism [just left of RINO] was fading fast
Ha! Vamoose! Thesaurus intoxicated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
“George Will has jumped the shark. “
He didn’t jump the shark. He switched sides to become one...except he has no teeth. Only words and bile, mixed together.
Hard to believe he was considered conservative 30-40 years ago.
As someone with his own doctorate and decades in higher education, I had great respect for the intellectual stalwarts of conservatism and how they stood for rational ideals in the face of the illogical absurdities of the left. It has been a painful experience to give up that respect, but it is all gone now. In the face of an intelligent but non-intellectual President who is getting done what decades of conservative intellectualism could not get done, what I see from the intellectuals is not admiration but puerile jealousy. I had thought better of them.
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