Today's George Will column is the sort of hit piece we should expect to hear much of for the next two years as Democrats take the reins in Congress. Quite frankly, this is the most craptacular tantrum I've seen in quite some time, and it just reinforces what we've been talking about. It's a mix of scolding hypocrite and Marshall Wittman (or are they one and the same?)
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. Washington has a way of quickly acculturating people, especially those who are most susceptible to derangement by the derivative dignity of office. But Jim Webb, Democratic senator-elect from Virginia, has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator.
Oh, my, Jim Webb didn't use the language correctly! GASP! The horror!
And when is pompous poseur good grammar either?
Can you see where this steaming pile is leading?
Webb certainly has conveyed what he is: a boor. Never mind the patent disrespect for the presidency. Webb's more gross offense was calculated rudeness toward another human being -- one who, disregarding many hard things Webb had said about him during the campaign, asked a civil and caring question, as one parent to another. When -- if ever -- Webb grows weary of admiring his new grandeur as a "leader" who carefully calibrates the "symbolic things" he does to convey messages, he might consider this: In a republic, people decline to be led by leaders who are insufferably full of themselves.
Really? A boor? Let's consider the scenario. The President's kids are destroying Argentina and have been ASKED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY while Webb's son is fighting Bush's war-on-something-that-looks-like-terror-even-though-we-created-it-by-invading-a-country-that-
didn't-attack-us. Bush asks the question like he has NO FUCKING CLUE what Webb's son just might be doing. Webb, being a no-bullshit guy, says that he'd like them out of Iraq. Bush gets testy that someone didn't go for his fratboy charm, and asks the question again. Webb refuses to answer since Bush was being an ass.
And before Will conveniently rewrites history, it's noteworthy that he ignores the fact that Webb tried to avoid the president and the president sought him out. Webb wasn't looking for trouble, but trouble came after him, and Webb, who has actually FOUGHT FOR THIS NATION, has only one way of dealing with trouble: the direct approach.
Will then rants on about Webb's careless use of the English language in the past few weeks, whining about how Webb has deviated from his excellent writing background. Oh, my, he's murdering the English language by Will's overly exacting, stick up the anus standards! AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! The humanity!!!!!
And let's close with this Last Honest Man/Wittman/St. McCain/Specter ripoff:
Based on Webb's behavior before being sworn in, one shudders to think what he will be like after that. He already has become what Washington did not need another of, a subtraction from the city's civility and clear speaking.
Civil? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
Ladies and gentlemen, I present George Will, conservative leader of a nonexistent universe. May he find a reality to suit his ignorant, warped idea of Washington. Perhaps he should go ask his buddies in the GOP how civil they were.
To steal a Hunter: this is truly a prime example of dumbfuckery.
Thank you and good night.