This is weird... I actually agree more with George Will on This Week

than I do with Sam Donaldson.

Sam sounds like he wants the Dems to rubber stamp everything Paulson/Bernanke want right off. I even find myself agree with Mike Pence, Republican from Indiana, when he said in free-markets businesses should be free to fail.

?????

If it's still happening, then I might have to. :)

They all said McCain was unpresidential. Even Kookie Roberts.

It's like bizarro world, lol.

some AWFUL legislation if it's it's come to this. Sam D offered no argument - just belief that is HAS to be done NOW.

But nobody can fully explain why it's so imperative. All they can say is that it has to be done etc etc. Really? Because I remember a lot of people saying we had to go into Iraq or that we have to stay there or that we needed all of these tax cuts and on and on and on. I don't like it when people try to scare me to death and ram through legislation that ends up being radical. Remember The Patriot Act? The GOP, in particular, and people in power, in general, seem to take advantage of situations like this to ram through stuff they could never do otherwise. We've been scared and preached into fearing any reasonable solution as creeping socialism, held hostage and had our national debate shaped by a radical economic ideology for almost 30 years now, so now that ideology has brought us to the brink of another depression and we're supposed to bail out the egregious offenders? I don't buy it. I also hear these people all saying they don't know for sure what will happen or if it would work. Well guess what, they've all been wrong on everything and refused sensible policy for decades, I think they should live with it. I haven't heard anybody tell me much about what would happen if we didn't other than generic fearmongering. That reminds me of the run up to the Iraq War, so now I'm suppose to heed them crying wolf again?

or the direction the Bushies have taken the Republican Party.
They pretty much ignored any of the "philoshopy" Will supports, and have made the "conservative idealism" of the right into a tent meeting for religious right snakehandlers.
I think Will aspired to be the next Republican intellectual, and found that he had no one left to talk to because his party had been taken over by the stupid.

mark

I think Republicans fall back on the term "Conservative" as an always positive realm that describes their belief system in a mythical way. What I mean is, when Republicans screw everything up, like Bush for instance, it's because "he isn't really a Conservative." In the Conservative world, Republicans are for things like fiscal restraint, but in reality, they are for no such thing. When they govern, they are the exact opposite of what they propose to be.

Now a guy like Will never has had to govern, but he is an actual Conservative in the intellectual sense. That these guys who run his party are so foolish and reckless has to be tough for him for the reasons you stated, he has nobody to talk to because the party has "been taken over by the stupid".

I guess Will is too old to work out and start wearing skin-tight pants.