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Showing Original Post only (View all)George Will wakes up to see his monster [View all]
20 April 2024
Washington Post
Some gems and dead-on accusations by George Will
Stoking the passion that is their excuse for pandering - the nihilism of a febrile minority in their party - a majority of House Republicans - voted last Saturday to endanger civilization. Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious establishment), they voted to assure Vladimir Putins attempt to erase a European nation.
N.B:
A simple majority - 216 of all votes - was needed for passage.
On Ukraine: 311 - 112. All 112 were Republicans.
Voted to endanger civilization. Voted to enhance their political security. Voted to assure the erasure a European nation.
Will then goes on to add:
"Tuesdays Senate ratification of Ukrainian aid proves that Dwight Eisenhowers baton of Republican internationalism was passed, via Ronald Reagan, to Mitch McConnell."
Awwww. Give yourself some credit, George! You were there flogging the myth of the purity and sureness of Republican governing along the with the rest of the Reich-wing media, feeding the Reich's army of Armageddon-craving, gullible, imbeciles.
And Reagan. It all points back to Reagan. Nixon being dead. That must have hurt George, because in the 1980's he regularly burnish Reagan's balls to a high sheen.
The wind-up:
"We have defined heroism so far down that it encompasses Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) allowing a House vote on assisting Ukrainians resistance to indiscriminate bombardments of population centers, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture and the abduction of children."
And by "We", he means "Republicans." 112 Republicans VOTED to look the other way on bombardments, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, and the abduction of children.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/ignoble-house-republicans-against-ukraine-aid/
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I've always held George Will in low esteem, but he's a talented wordsmith nevertheless.
Ocelot II
Apr 2024
#1
Will, like Buckley before him, fancies himself a conservative intellectual.
Happy Hoosier
Apr 2024
#3
What has happened to the Republican party is the natural consequence of their worldview.
Caliman73
Apr 2024
#19