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Showing Original Post only (View all)George Will: Vote against Republicans [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.htmlAmid 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 Constitutions 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.
The principle: The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitutions 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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Then he's still denying what actually happened, trying to wipe off the fingerprints...
JHB
Jun 2018
#21
Wonderful post...I especially liked the wording "brought to heel or brought under the keel"
c-rational
Jun 2018
#53
He has a way with words. Excellent writer. He says it succinctly, & sends a msg.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2018
#4
He's just pompous douchebag with a thesaurus who's been wrong about everything his entire
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jun 2018
#10
Yes - there was a tidal shift during that time. Well orchestrated and taking advantage
erronis
Jun 2018
#41
George Will delivers the talking point du jour for the RNC. The RNC plans to clean out the Tea Party
McCamy Taylor
Jun 2018
#16
No, Will still hates Democrats, and believes the Republican role is essentially to block
Nitram
Jun 2018
#48
Only if "temperate" means being Trump toady unable to express a coherent opinion of their own.
Nitram
Jun 2018
#52
Nope, Will is as deplorable as they come. He sees the evil of Trump, cannot admit that his own
Nitram
Jun 2018
#51
Good point, struggle. Will doesn't want government to work, and he sees Trump as proof that it
Nitram
Jun 2018
#47
If anyone has any doubt that George Will sees Democrats as only a slightly less evil alternative
Nitram
Jun 2018
#46
George Will is 100% correct. Trump has become a major problem for the US to survive.
UCmeNdc
Jun 2018
#57