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 is an Ahole, and I don’t have any use for Pence.
Yes I recall the pre inauguration dinner after which Will pronounced Obama a great choice. (in reflection looking at the two choices, Ohaha and McStain, it was a choice between onions and garlic).
A true non sequitor.
My email response to Will:
“Mr. Will,
“Your most recent column is pathetic, and by far, your worst effort at opinion journalism.
“What has happened to cause you to move into the Pelosi-Schumer-Obama left wing elitist camp? You used to have interesting viewpoints, even though I at times disagreed with them. Now your clumsy attacks on President Trump and his administration are just boring.
I think your “use by” date has expired. Please consider seriously full retirement and a muted slide into obscurity.”
Agreed. It might as well have been written by a rabid leftist.
Say what?
GRANDILOQUENT
In the hospital setting if someone started speaking like George Will writes we would call a stroke alert.
Your post is great!
George Will is under the impression the American people ‘feel’ the same as phony ‘elites’ in Washington DC. They don’t.
George, take that bowtie and stick it.
This guy needs to stop with the tough words and simply speak at a regular level for all to understand. I know, I know he is a blow hard from the 70’s and 80’s when a persons vocabulary placed you in a high tower, but who cares, George Will is a never trumper bill Kristol lover.
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry,
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.
No, I didn’t read the article. I won’t waste my time. Knowing what Georgie has become, I’ll just dismiss him with an appropriate nursery rhyme.
I would like to see Mr. Will go pay a bedside call to John McCain....I would then like to see a house dropped on them.
What a dense, overwritten and bitter, mean spirited article. Will is the John McCain of journalists.
There are those of us who recall David Brinkley and his Sunday show This Week on ABC after he had had years as an anchor etc formerly at NBC with Chet Huntley
1981-1996
Will was on the show with Hodding Carter Jr and Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts
Will never telegraphed what a kook he was then
Not that I noticed
Hmmm??? Could it be the Swamp Star Chamber had a “come to Satan” meeting with Will?
If V.P. Pence is now the most despised man in the Swamp... that speaks well of him in my mind!
Is and always will be a pompous @ss. Kinda reminds of that guy Goldberg who also is seldom heard from these days.
Best president ever, and these idiots can accept it.
Trump, did one thing, he outed people from both parties as too their incompetence and more over their true beliefs. He got these liberal democrats to show their true colors, and he’s done it to the republicans too.
Well the Left certainly knows that those who control the language are the best at transforming culture.
Hey George, You ain’t all that!
It might as well have been written by a rabid leftist.
It was.
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