"The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation"

[Shrek]

There's a phrase you don't read every day.

Link goes go George Will at National Review, so don't click if that sort of thing makes you twitchy.

All supposedly will be redeemed by the House agenda. So, assume, fancifully, that in 2017 this agenda emerges intact from a House not yet proved able to pass twelve appropriations bills. Assume, too, that Republicans still control the Senate and can persuade enough Democrats to push the House agenda over the 60-vote threshold. Now, for some really strenuous assuming: Assume that whatever semblance of the House agenda that reaches President Trump’s desk is more important than keeping this impetuous, vicious, ignorant, and anti-constitutional man from being at that desk.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436245/paul-ryan-donald-trump-endorsement-high-price-paid

[HuckleB]

1. Screw George Will, Paul Ryan, and Trump.

They are all scum of the earth, and, also dumb as they come.

Ryan is too stupid to simply wait out Trump's ludicrousness, so now he'll go down with it.

Of course, that is good. Very good.

[spanone]

2. if george will had a shred of integrity he would walk away from the republican party

[yellowcanine]

4. "if george will had a shred of integrity" I do not believe George Will has spotted his integrity

for some time. It has been at least since the first Reagan Carter debate, if not before, that Will's integrity went missing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/george-f-will-his-unethic_b_35251.html

So, unless you have access to some very old milk cartons, looking for George Will's integrity is probably a waste of time.

[spanone]

6. 'if'

[msongs]

3. sorry boys and girls but Ryan could have stuck to principles and not endorsed trump. NOT trump's

fault, it is ryans

[yellowcanine]

5. Can't stand Will. But "Caligulan Malice" would be a great name for a rock band.

[FSogol]

7. Take a bow, George Will, you helped enable Trump with your promotion of Reagan and W.

Trump is just a crass version of St. Ronnie. You aided the destruction of the GOP even though you knew better. Live with it fool.

[PJMcK]

8. I love the smell of Republican cannibalism in the morning

It's an important part of my weekly reading to look at the articles and opinion pieces published by The National Review as well as a few other "respectable" conservative outlets. As I've said elsewhere, it's valuable to read the opposition's writings to understand their perspective. It provides our side with possible strategies.

But this is especially fun because the Republican Establishment is going after their party's nominee! It's wonderful to watch these hypocrites self-destructing and jettisoning any semblance of principles or ethics. This was a particularly good quote from George Wills' column:

"Some say in extenuation of Ryan’s behavior that if he could not embrace Trump, he could not continue as speaker. But is Ryan, who was reluctant to become speaker, now more indispensable to the nation’s civic health than Trump is menacing to that health? Ryan could have enhanced that health by valuing it above his office."

I hope there'll be a lot more of this between now and November.

Thanks for bring the opinion piece to our attention, Shrek.