Heh. George Will has a sad on about Donald Trump.

[yellowcanine]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/conservative-columnist-trump-opposition-may-be-too-little-too-late/comments/#disqus

Conservative columnist George F. Will spoke with an air of resignation on Sunday as he asked whether it was "too late" to stop Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News. “In war, every disaster can be explained by two words: too late," Will said, quoting the advice of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Huh. And of course the self absorbed George Will would brook no suggestion that his own willingness to pander to the fact challenged wing of the party (See global warming denialist columns) might have anything to do with the rise of another self absorbed pander bear who will say anything, facts be damned, to be popular and win votes.

[First Speaker]

1. Fuck George Will

I used to admire him a little, mostly because of his baseball writings. "Men at Work" is an excellent book, because he does some real reporting in it and doesn't go around quoting from Lucien of Samasota and generally--as was famously said about him by Henry Fairlie--"rummaging thru Western Civilization like a bag lady". But he's whored himself to the crazy right, and is now reaping the whirlwind...

[Marr]

2. Yeah, they won't learn anything from this either.

It's not like this is the first sign that their 'bubble world' technique was getting away from them, either. The GOP establishment had to shoehorn Romney into the nomination last time, and the Tea Party's influence in Congress has repeatedly left the party incapable of playing the old 'compromise' game with establishment Democrats to advance their mutually corporate agenda.

But where else can they go at this point? Reagan really began a lot of this nonsense by making Evangelicals into a voting block for the GOP. When you're pushing an openly 1%er's only agenda, you have to really court the moron vote, and the Republican Party has drifted way, way further in that direction than Reagan ever dared. Their ideas just aren't viable in a national election anymore, and are becoming less so every year.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. On "Compromise"

I saw your post with compromise in quotes, and it made me think that it's probably way worse than just that.

It occurred to me that these people have gone beyond an unwillingness to compromise.

They now have a blatant unwillingness to negotiate, or even discuss.

We're agreeing, i'm just saying the TP congresscritters are even worse than you describe.