George Will: I will do many things for my country & my profession. I won´t take seriously Jay Carney

Daily Caller ^ | March 1, 2013 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

On Laura Ingraham’s radio show on Friday, Washington Post columnist George Will took a few digs at the Obama White House for the way it has handled the so-called sequestration crisis.

According to Will, the process has shown the public just where President Barack Obama and other liberals are on government and how any reduction is “intolerable.”

“I think the sequester argument is extremely useful because it’s very educational for the American public,” Will said. “When the Obama administration increases on average 17 percent the budgets of the domestic agencies that are now facing a 5 percent cut, and they say this is intolerable, they reveal that the basic position of liberalism is this — whatever the size of the government is at any moment, it’s the bare minimum standing between us and chaos and misery, which just strikes the American people as facially preposterous.

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[Rufus2007]

Usually not a huge George Will fan, but the dig at Jay Carney was an unusual moment.

Other than that, bravo for explaining the who liberals view the size of government.

[SIRTRIS]

Washington Post columnist George Will is a good example of how slow democrats are to understand reality but many are still blinded by Obama.

[therightliveswithus]

Very nice

[edcoil]

The fact is, there is nothing the American people can trust coming from out government or banking system, for that matter, that includes the judicial branch.

[facedown]

“I think the sequester argument is extremely useful because it’s very educational for the American public,” Will said.

That assumes they're educable.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You realize that when Reagan was President the only private home in Washington that he visited for dinner was George Will’s? If Reagan wanted (or needed) to have dinner with someone in Washington, he invited ‘em over to the place he was staying at on Pennsylvania Avenue. The one except was George Will.

[Uncle Miltie]

George: Use fewer, smaller words for the Low-Information (STUPID) voter.

For example:

“0bama’s budget games prove he only wants bigger government and higher taxes.”

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That assumes they're educable.

My thought exactly. Most people he refers to wouldn't know George Will if they stepped on him. Or rather, if he stepped in front of their Boob Toob while "Dancing With The Stars" is on.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I think the sequester argument is extremely useful because it’s very educational for the American public”

They are too ignernt George.

[Albion Wilde]

George Will: I will do many things for my country [but] I won't take seriously Jay Carney

Is that because they were...

........

Separated at birth?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Usually not a huge George Will fan

You realize that when Reagan was President the only private home in Washington that he visited for dinner was George Will’s?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an intellectual, the author (or co-author) of

• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

• Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance)

• The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide (Wiley Finance)

• The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

• The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging

He is an intellectual, but his interest in uncertainty and risk makes him a conservative intellectual. A “you can’t watch the basket, so you had better not put all your eggs in one basket” conservative. An anti-Soviet, anti-Harvard, anti-acadademic intellectual. An anti-journalism intellectual.

And, interestingly, an anti-George Will intellectual. He says if there’s anything he can’t stand it is someone who thinks he is a thinker - and is not.