George Will: Vote against GOP in midterms

The Hill ^ | 06/22/18 | Justin Wise

[yesthatjallen]

Conservative columnist George Will is making the argument to vote against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

In a piece published Friday in the Washington Post, Will says that President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy at the border was "the most telegenic example of misrule" and it provided “fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which” independents and moderate Republicans should vote.

That principle he says is that the number of Republicans in office must be “substantially reduced.”

"The principle: 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 that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers," Will wrote. "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."

Will targets House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and many other Republican lawmakers for serving as the "president’s poodles."

"Not because James Madison’s system has failed but because today’s abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it," Will added. "Congressional Republicans (congressional Democrats are equally supine toward Democratic presidents) have no higher ambition than to placate this president."

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[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, I’m just talking spiritual practicalities. An America that can just be left alone wasn’t entirely realistic even in founding days, and it sure isn’t now.

So if the balance of influence is out of us into the rest of the world, we avert being compromised in the other direction. We can be measured in how we do this. Nobody is saying for the USA to wear itself out or spend itself down to nothing in doing this. But if indeed “in God do we trust” then we’re going to be a source, not a sink or even a static entity, in the world until it is over.

It is a necessary consequence of what divine grace is. It can’t be hogged, any more than manna could be saved up for any day (except the once a week sabbath). To get it from God, we must be of an attitude to pass it on to others.