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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris on February 21, 2010, 09:30:03 PM

Title: Government's Only 'Broken' When Left Can't Enact Its Agenda
Post by: Chris on February 21, 2010, 09:30:03 PM

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George Will said Sunday that people only talk about the government being broken when the Left is having trouble enacting its agenda.

During the Roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week," "Nightline" host Terry Moran brought up the recent announcement by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) that he would not seek reelection in November because "Congress is not operating as it should."

When the baton was tossed to him, Will said, "[W]ith 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."

Will followed by noting, "No one when George W. Bush had trouble reforming Social Security said, 'Oh, that's terrible - the government's broken'" (video embedded below the fold with transcript and commentary).

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/21/george-will-governments-only-considered-broken-when-left-having-troub

Title: Re: Government's Only 'Broken' When Left Can't Enact Its Agenda
Post by: Lord Undies on February 21, 2010, 11:01:54 PM

The obvious is getting a voice.

Title: Re: Government's Only 'Broken' When Left Can't Enact Its Agenda
Post by: The Village Idiot on February 22, 2010, 12:34:49 AM

I gave up on George Will a long time ago