Posted on 01/19/2019 7:38:19 AM PST by EdnaMode
Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.
If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.
The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
And that senatorial dignity is too brittle to survive the disapproval of a president not famous for familiarity with actual policies. Congressional Republicans have their ears to the ground — never mind Winston Churchill’s observation that it is difficult to look up to anyone in that position.
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FYGW....
Clinton is no longer president.
George, jealousy is not attractive, especially in a man. Just give it up already. Trump is smarter, richer, and better than you; deal with it.
George, pull up yer little bitch panties
George Will. The Valley Girl of pundits.
This is also the only president who was attacked,CONSTANTLY, from the moment he was elected.
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I think George forgot to get his testosterone shots.....
So sayeth Mr Bow Tie. Will is journalism’s version of Bill Nye, the “Science” Guy. Both demonstrate a similar talent regarding their craft.
Awaiting his comments regarding Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch quota baby. Crickets......
Poor George, relegated to writing click-baitish anti-Trump screeds for The Bezos Blog to get any attention. I’d imagine his prissy little bowties are getting a little frayed along about now, he needs the money.
Barack Obama, the bisexual bastard love child of a commie couple who was brought to the political stage by a bomb throwing Communist traitor terrorist who’d bombed the Pentagon and who’s organization plotted to bomb an armory dance once, the man who ushered transvestites into leadership of the US military, who was bombed on drugs the night of the Benghazi attack (if rumors are to be belived and Obama himself still refuses to say WHAT he was doing or WHERE he was when all of that went down)...
George Will has screwed Satan’s pooch.
Will spends all day looking up obscure big words to sound superior.
He is still a doosh who has no grasp of reality.
My dad always told me, “Never trust a man wearing a bow-tie.”
Will was a ‘sort of’ conservative when it was profitable for him to appear so. Now, his bread is buttered on the other side and his slime shines through.
George Will is proof-positive that the brain can flatline, and life in the body can continue.
George has a thesaurus, splenetic...
STFU you subcutaneous twit
Poor George Will . . . . going down in history as a dud!
When George Will became a liberal Democrat this late in his career he became disgusting to follow.
Has George ever had a real job? Has he ever produced anything?
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