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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuite remarkable column by George Will (i know, i know)
Do Republicans really think Donald Trump will make a good Supreme Court choice?............
Republicans who vow to deny Garland a hearing and who pledge to support Donald Trump if he is their partys nominee are saying: Democracy somehow requires that this vacancy on a non-majoritarian institution must be filled only after voters have had their say through the election of the next president. And constitutional values will be served if the vacancy is filled not by Garland but by someone chosen by President Trump, a stupendously uninformed dilettante who thinks judges sign what he refers to as bills. There is every reason to think that Trump understands none of the issues pertinent to the Supreme Courts role in the American regime, and there is no reason to doubt that he would bring to the selection of justices what he brings to all matters arrogance leavened by frivolousness.
Trumps multiplying Republican apologists do not deny the self-evident that he is as clueless regarding everything as he is about the nuclear triad. These invertebrate Republicans assume that as president he would surround himself with people unlike himself wise and temperate advisers. So, we should wager everything on the hope that the man who says his number one foreign policy adviser is myself (because I have a very good brain) will succumb to humility and rely on people who actually know things. If Republicans really think that either their front-runner or the Democrats would nominate someone superior to Garland, it would be amusing to hear them try to explain why they do.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-wont-give-the-nominee-a-hearing-explained/2016/03/18/25df8ab2-ec8a-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)(His repulsive politics notwithstanding.)
tabasco
(22,974 posts)I'm so happy to see the rottenness of the republican party and "conservatism" implode upon itself.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)It's part of his long campaign to foster perceptions that he's a thoughtful and principled centrist
But it usually doesn't last very long
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)just to tweak a couple of republican friends. I shared a George Will post- it may snow in DFW tonight.
Botany
(70,501 posts)... to investigate President Obama's place of birth?
Too late George just like the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, and the
Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill republican policies have their prices that will need to
be paid.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)He called out Rmoney for associating with Trump during the last election, specifically because of his birther dumbfuckery.
Botany
(70,501 posts)<During the 1980 campaign, he [George Will] drew fire when it was learned he'd secretly coached Republican candidate Ronald Reagan for a debate with President Jimmy Carter using a debate briefing book stolen from the Carter campaign. Immediately following the debate, Will appeared on Nightline (10/28/80) to praise Reagan's "thoroughbred performance," never disclosing his role in rehearsing that performance (New York Times, 7/9/83).>
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/3/277267/-
And after the debate Will wroe a piece in Time Mag. about how well Reagan had done in the debate.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)But at least in this instance it was just worth pointing out that he's consistently been anti-Trump for many years.
malaise
(268,966 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)Enjoy the monster you and your movement helped to create and then inflict upon us all.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Theyre terrified that he is exposing the truth about their rampant corporate cronyism and truth about the Iraq war.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)sus453
(164 posts)but this time he's right (though perhaps like the clock twice a day).
AllyCat
(16,183 posts)He is so correct about this issue. He has a solid grasp of language, intelligence, and writing skills to pen a scathing analysis of the dangerous farce Senate Republicans are making of a serious situation in our democracy.
Skittles
(153,153 posts)which is exactly what he is
bdwker
(435 posts)no fooling
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)He's calling Trump an idiot. So far, so good.
But he's using Trump's idiocy as a reason to give Garland a hearing. He's not pushing a Garland hearing because it is the Senate's job to hold a hearing.
If the Repug frontrunner were someone else, like Cruz, I assume Will would want the hearing delayed.
He's an ass.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Dismissing a liberal critic of the rule, Will wrote: The Senate is not obligated to jettison one of its defining characteristics, permissiveness regarding extended debate, in order to pander to the perception that the presidency is the sun around which all else in American governmenteven American lifeorbits.
Ten years and an apparent Copernican Revolution later, Will reversed himself. In the column Coup Against the Constitution (Washington Post, 2/28/03), Will found the Senate rule hed once draped in the mantle of original intent was in fact an affront to the framers.
Concerned that 41 Senate Democrats might succeed in stopping the confirmation of Miguel Estrada, nominated by George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Will wrote: If Senate rules, exploited by an anti-constitutional minority, are allowed to trump the Constitutions text and two centuries of practice, the Senates power to consent to judicial nominations will have become a Senate right to require a supermajority vote for confirmation.
cheated on his wife, too:
....in the 1980s, while still married to his first wife, Will was romantically linked to Lally Weymouth, daughter of Washington Post owner Katharine Graham, according to Washingtonian magazine (1/87).
When Will moved out on his wife and children, he found his office furniture dumped on his front lawn with a note reading, Take it somewhere else, buster (Salon, 2/12/98).
http://fair.org/extra/the-hypocrisy-of-george-will/
and, yes, Tina Weymouth was the bass player for Talking Heads
kpete
(71,986 posts)have been snuffed out by his tremendous ego
peace Gabi Hayes,
kp
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)During his speech he said that groups like Common Cause should not be allowed to lobby, but that people like the K-streeters should have whatever access for which they were willing to pay.
During the QandA I axed him what sort of logic he used to come to such a strange conclusion, and he refused to answer, at which point I kept repeating the question, and I was asked to sit down or leave, so I shot him.
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)Please stop helping the Republicans absolve themselves of Trump. They made him with their "Southern Strategy". The Democratic Party needs to hang Trump around the Republicans neck.
As for George Will, he may be a good writer, but he is a piece of work. I refuse to rec this OP, because I feel it is helping the Republic Party absolve themselves of Trump.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Will be certain folks.. they have a list of hard core righties the want him to promise to select from