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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.e8ba9a11c525excerpt:
Ryan and many other Republicans have become the presidents poodles, not because James Madisons system has failed but because todays abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it. As explained in Federalist 51: Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. Congressional Republicans (congressional Democrats are equally supine toward Democratic presidents) have no higher ambition than to placate this president. By leaving dormant the powers inherent in their institution, they vitiate the Constitutions vital principle: the separation of powers.
Recently Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is retiring , became an exception that illuminates the depressing rule. He proposed a measure by which Congress could retrieve a small portion of the policymaking power that it has, over many decades and under both parties, improvidently delegated to presidents. Congress has done this out of sloth and timidity to duck hard work and risky choices. Corkers measure would have required Congress to vote to approve any trade restrictions imposed in the name of national security. All Senate Republicans worthy of the conservative label that all Senate Republicans flaunt would privately admit that this is conducive to sound governance and true to the Constitutions structure. But the Senate would not vote on it would not allow it to become just the second amendment voted on this year .
This is because the amendment would have peeved the easily peeved president. 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.
The Trump whisperer regarding immigration is Stephen Miller, 32, whose ascent to eminence began when he became the Savonarola of Santa Monica High School . Corey Lewandowski, a Trump campaign official who fell from the kings grace but is crawling back (he works for Mike Pences political action committee), recently responded on Fox News to the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome taken from her parents at the border. Lewandowski replied: Wah, wah. Meaningless noise is this administrations appropriate libretto because, just as a magnet attracts iron filings, Trump attracts, and is attracted to, louts.
In todays GOP, which is the presidents plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his partys cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nations honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senates 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.
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Wow, they lost George Will: "Vote against the GOP this November" (Original Post)
swag
Jun 2018
OP
George will owns this mess...you dance with the devil what did you expect? I
beachbum bob
Jun 2018
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)1. George will owns this mess...you dance with the devil what did you expect? I
truly want Hell to exist so people like Will, the trumps, the Jill Stein voters all suffer for eternity.
ramblin_dave
(1,546 posts)2. He's still a jerk...
"congressional Democrats are equally supine toward Democratic presidents"
"A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables"
GusBob
(7,286 posts)3. In which nobody reads all the way
" A democratic majority in congress would be a basket of deplorables"
Fuck you George
Salviati
(6,008 posts)5. I'll second that.
A hearty fuck you to george will. It's this kind of shit that got you into this mess. I would have been a bit more generous if he had owned up to the hand he and his ilk had in making the mess.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)4. Last week on Real Time, George Will called Trump a Buccaneer.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)7. He also said honest liberalism is an oxymoron
icymist
(15,888 posts)6. Seriously though, this should be on billboards in every red Republican state:
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.
- George Will, 2018
Freddie
(9,267 posts)8. George Will is a good baseball writer
Otherwise a "conservative intellectual", an oxymoron if there ever was one.