George Will is such a dick:

[PCIntern]

His response to Katrina van den Heuvel to the whole Comey/Ashcroft business was that the "system works...give James Madison some credit."

Screw him - Will, not Madison - this is the way it was during Watergate for you younger readers - when the abuses were exposed, one at a time, the response by the Rethugs was consistently: Well that's over with, let's get on with the important stuff in the Country. The major mistake the Dems made was that when Nixon resigned, the Rethugs said that the long national nightmare was over. No, it wasn't, but they went along with it and that is what gave us Reagan and his minions.

Years ago, I attended a forum where Will was speaking. One of the participants asked him about Roe v. Wade and he said that the Left should calm down, that right now, it's the law of the land presently and it was no big deal. The participant, to her credit, stood back up and demanded that Will explain his carefully parsed use of language, which he repeated. The gal then said that Will was fooling no one and that he was just the vanguard for the future repression of women's right to choose. Will did his patented silence routine, as though by not responding he was winning the argument. She added, right before she sat down, "Sneering is not an argument, sir."

We all cheered her. He just smiled b/c he knew that they would be able to slowly whittle away at all the progress the average citizen has made since Roosevelt, and that all the little protesting would make no difference in the long run. For the RW is smart enough to work slowly and carefully, utilizing small victories and moving inexorably up the mountain. What we have to do as progressives, is cut that rope a la Stallone and watch them plummet into the ideological crevasse.

[Botany]

1. Will is a nasty little shit

A few years ago he came to Ohio as a paid speaker for a fund raiser for
a speech & hearing clinic ..... A friend drove him from the airport into town ..
before his talk a women came up to him and told him she was a big fan ....
Will turned to my friend an said, "Get me some peace and quite how can I
think with all these people bothering me." Will's fan was crushed.

[PCIntern]

2. I can believe that...

he pioneered that smarmy little bow-tied look when we were running around as hippies for crying out loud. Now the bowtie is sort of campy, back then it was priggish and weird.

Except for Tucker, who had to shed it for obvious reasons.

[Botany]

4. He also used stolen documents from Jimmy Carter to prep Reagan for a ..

.... debate in 2000. Reagan knowing what Carter was going to say looked
good and then Will wrote a column in Newsweek praising Ronny performance ..
Newsweek suspended Will for a "short bit" after the truth came out. Ask him
about the stolen papers even today and Will still gets real testy.

[PCIntern]

5. I think that that's the only teste he's got. n/t

[Why Syzygy]

3. A recreational therapist I know

uses a clever game to illustrate to her clients the strategies of a) besting your own resources or b) trying to undercut your oponent's resources. The winning strategy of the game is a.
IOW, forget their ropes and get on with ours.

[kenny blankenship]

6. The system will work when/if this whole bunch of fascist thugs are impeached & stripped of office

then jailed as the felons and war criminals that they are.

[PCIntern]

7. You're a real optimist...

I wish you were right, but...well, you know.

After Watergate, Jimmy Breslin wrote a book entitled, "How the Good Guys Finally Won", and we thought b/c all these S.O.B.'s were out of the WH and that the Congress was so strongly Dem, the War was winding down, that we were all set. The Republicans were dead in the water.

Uh-huh.

[wtmusic]

8. The system works as in, "the system will take care of itself"

Without well-intentioned, honest people behind it the Consitution is so much toilet paper, George.

[theoldman]

9. George Will was definitely outnumbered on the show today.

Outnumbered by two intelligent people.