Vote against the GOP this November - George F. Will

[endicom]

Washington Post
George F. Will
June 22, 2018

Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections that can reshape Congress, the policy has given independents and temperate Republicans — these are probably expanding and contracting cohorts, respectively — fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which they should vote.

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. 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.

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[Bigun]

George should stick to writing about things he knows a little bit about.  Baseball for instance.

[endicom]

George should stick to writing about things he knows a little bit about.  Baseball for instance.

Did you catch his convoluted reasoning or did your eyes cross about half way down the page?

[WingNot]

George must be trying to fill the intellectual void Charles Krauthammers passing left.   He failed.

[Frank Cannon]

This stupid azzhole spent most of his 1979 and 1980 penning pieces telling people to not vote for Reagan and instead vote for Howard Baker and then George Bush. He can get bent.

[Bigun]

Did you catch his convoluted reasoning or did your eyes cross about half way down the page?

@endicom

To be perfectly honest with you I must confess to having gotten no further than the title and the byline.   Stopped right there.

[dfwgator]

This stupid azzhole spent most of his 1979 and 1980 penning pieces telling people to not vote for Reagan and instead vote for Howard Baker and then George Bush. He can get bent.

Dad always told me never to trust anyone wearing a bow-tie.

[Sanguine]

Did you catch his convoluted reasoning or did your eyes cross about half way down the page?

I didn't get that far.

[Frank Cannon]

Dad always told me never to trust anyone wearing a bow-tie.

[dfwgator]

Don't get me started.

[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

Will's writing is valid.  One should download it into a Word document and read it with a cup of coffee/pastry - stay with the writing.  What he says needs to happen may happen - it is the way I see voting may happen in Nov. based on circumstances now.

[Frank Cannon]

Will's writing is valid.  One should download it into a Word document and read it with a cup of coffee/pastry - stay with the writing. 

The only way this piece makes any sense is to print it out, download it into the toilet and flush. Then shoot up heroin and take a vodka chaser.

[EasyAce]

@Victoria33

From the essay:

The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to undo by unilateral decree the border folly they could have prevented by actually legislating, is an advertisement for the unimportance of Republican control . . .

. . . In today’s GOP, which is the president’s plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate’s machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House. And to those who say, “But the judges, the judges!” the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.

(Emphasis added.)

Once upon a time I rubbed my eyes and shuddered over the number of people believing a president was supreme and ignoring that the legislature was a) afforded supremacy even over the executive and b) thus addressed first in the Constitution. Today I shudder over the number of legislators who have believed likewise, behaved likewise, and refused to stand their ground and do their jobs---whether making law or (much better yet!) repealing law---for only too many years regardless of which miscreant happens to occupy the White House.

Will's writing is valid.  One should download it into a Word document and read it with a cup of coffee/pastry - stay with the writing.

All that's required to read it is to bear the ability you yourself have inabundance---an ability to read English. ;)

What he says needs to happen may happen - it is the way I see voting may happen in Nov. based on circumstances now.

It is very possible.

[truth_seeker]

There is no real need for the likes of Will, bow tie nd tortoise shell specs.

Better listen to Victor Davis Hanson, Newt, X Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich, Bill O"Reilly. Pat Buchanan, etc

In other words, folks making honest efforts to understand and explain the reality, f the Trump phenom, for better or worse.

[INVAR]

From the essay:

The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to undo by unilateral decree the border folly they could have prevented by actually legislating, is an advertisement for the unimportance of Republican control . . .

That and the previous 8 years of their handing Obama his agenda and funding it while refusing to do as they promised 'root and branch' along with constant assaults upon the Conservative base they demonstrably held in utter contempt - is more than just an advertisement; it is an in-depth video infomercial detailing precisely the reason why the Republican party is not only unimportant, but a cancer on liberty and principles.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

 Behind a paywall... what a sham(e).

[Concerned]

Behind a paywall... what a sham(e).

https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/06/george_will_this_november_cast_your_vote_against_t.html

[Jazzhead]

Did you catch his convoluted reasoning or did your eyes cross about half way down the page?

Yeah.   Basically indistinguishable from INVAR's.   

[Victoria33]

@Victoria33

From the essay:

The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to undo by unilateral decree the border folly they could have prevented by actually legislating, is an advertisement for the unimportance of Republican control . . .

. . . In today’s GOP, which is the president’s plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate’s machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House. And to those who say, “But the judges, the judges!” the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.

(Emphasis added.)

Once upon a time I rubbed my eyes and shuddered over the number of people believing a president was supreme and ignoring that the legislature was a) afforded supremacy even over the executive and b) thus addressed first in the Constitution. Today I shudder over the number of legislators who have believed likewise, behaved likewise, and refused to stand their ground and do their jobs---whether making law or (much better yet!) repealing law---for only too many years regardless of which miscreant happens to occupy the White House.
All that's required to read it is to bear the ability you yourself have inabundance---an ability to read English. ;)
It is very possible.

@EasyAce

Thanks Easy, you can read and understand, too.

[Axeslinger]

Yeah.   Basically indistinguishable from INVAR's.   

Now now @Jazzhead ...don’t be a gutless coward.  Have the stones to ping @INVAR when you cast aspersions.

Actually never mind...you’ve shown yourself to be nothing but several times.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/06/george_will_this_november_cast_your_vote_against_t.html

A garbage, nonsense article. He says nothing about the consequences of handing the house to the democrats until the second to last article, and basically brushes them off as "mischief".

Makes me understand the hatred towards the nt's, if they're willing to hand the country to the democrats to stop trump.

[INVAR]

Now now @Jazzhead ...don’t be a gutless coward.  Have the stones to ping @INVAR when you cast aspersions.

Actually never mind...you’ve shown yourself to be nothing but several times.

I'd rather he not.

Reading his Communist claptrap passed off as 'Conservatism' just gets my blood pressure up.

Makes me understand the hatred towards the nt's, if they're willing to hand the country to the democrats to stop trump.

Technically, logically and fundamentally - judging the fruits of the Republican party, it makes no difference which one of the Statist parties run the show.

The Republicans passed more of Obama's agenda than the Democrats did, and FUNDED it with aplomb to boot.

[endicom]

Makes me understand the hatred towards the nt's, if they're willing to hand the country to the democrats to stop trump.

We could have Hillary and a Dem congress if people like Will had their way.

[mystery-ak]

Laura Ingraham: George Will is ‘sad and petty’ for urging votes against GOP
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/393783-laura-ingraham-george-will-is-sad-and-petty-for-urging-votes-against-gop

[endicom]

Laura Ingraham: George Will is ‘sad and petty’ for urging votes against GOP
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/393783-laura-ingraham-george-will-is-sad-and-petty-for-urging-votes-against-gop

I'll side with Ingraham.

What the hell does George Will want? The status quo ante where nothing good ever happens? Because that's his comfort zone?