George Will on ABC: The Government's Only Broken When Left Can't Enact Its Agenda (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 22, 2010, 5:07 AM
George Will pointed out to his leftist co-panelists on on ABC’s “This Week” that people only talk about the government being broken when the Left is having trouble enacting its agenda.
Will was brilliant yesterday:
NewsBusters reported:
TERRY MORAN, HOST: There’s a sense that something is broken in Washington summed up this week by Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) who announced his retirement. I think it’s fair to say he’s leaving in disgust. Here’s what he had to say.
SENATOR EVAN BAYH, (D-IND.): I have had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship, and not enough progress. Too much narrow ideology, and not enough practical problem solving. Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people’s business is not getting done.
MORAN: Is he right, George?
GEORGE WILL: Well, it’s hard to take a lecture on bipartisanship from a man who voted against the confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, the confirmation of Justice Alito, the confirmation of Attorney General Ashcroft, the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Far from being a rebel against his Party’s lockstep movement, Mr. Bayh voted for the Detroit bailout, for the stimulus, for the public option in the healthcare bill. I don’t know quite what his complaint is, but, Terry, with metronomic regularity, we go through these moments in Washington where we complain about the government being broken. These moments have one thing in common: The Left is having trouble enacting its agenda. No one when George W. Bush had trouble reforming Social Security said, “Oh, that’s terrible – the government’s broken.”
Hat Tip Jamie Allman
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BurmaShave commented:
Perhaps what is most broken in America is the media, where partisanism is acted out, refined and perfected.
The only people who disagree with this are those who are happy with it.
Jason A commented:
Both these parties are broken. As much as I don’t care for the Dims socialist agenda, I’m not going to sit back and think the GOP is just fine and dandy. These RINOs and NeoCons increased the size of the US government and created debt and deficits as well. The Tea Party movement needs to be very suspicious of the Repubs.
drjohn commented:
It’ll be really interesting when the next Republican President zeroes out health care and privatizes social security all through reconciliation.
jorgen commented:
“something is broken in Washington”
Yeah, promises and MainStream Media.
down with dems commented:
#3 – they’re opening up the floodgates if they attempt it. Any radical tactics the Dems attempt, especially if they succeed, will just set a precedent enabling Republicans to retaliate upon regaining power… and the Dems to retaliate should they then regain power. It’s such selfish, short-sighted thinking to not realize that, or to realize it and forge ahead anyway. The ride will just get bumpier if, after every election, the new party in power uses reconciliation to undo all the junk that the other party previously used reconciliation to do.
down with dems commented:
(by which I mean the Dems better not do it, for their own good and our country’s — because if they do it, the Republicans will do it too… which won’t be a good thing in general, but would be acceptable to undo all the damage done under Obama’s watch)
noislamocommie commented:
Crickets on immigration on all sides…we will hear “path” talk from any GOP candidate I’m convinced.Nobody can claim to be a fiscal conservative while taking a blind eye to the incredible calculus of open borders/anchor baby+ welfare. It’s just incredible!
noislamocommie commented:
Non-article two prez aligns very nicely with reconciliation tactics….paging John Wayne.
Opus #6 commented:
Time Ragazine said the same thing, that America is frozen. And their advice about that is for conservatives to start cooperating with Obama’s agenda.
That won’t happen because Obama’s agenda is damaging to America.
BigAlSouth commented:
This guy has a message for the Lefty Host of this week:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/02/get-a-brain-morans.jpg
bg commented:
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OT..
imo, the best CPAC speech evah!!
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Paddy commented:
Bayh is no moderate Democrat. In fact there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat in Congress. They are all left-lefties.
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