George Will- Concern Troll

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By Charles P. Pierce

It's nice to see that G. Effing Will has taken to stopping by the Stupid Cafe on a regular basis these days. It must be that two-for-one deal the cafe cut with Fox News when the cafe first opened. (We know where the target-rich environments are.) Anyway, G. Effing Will has some serious concern trolling he'd like to share with the Democratic party.

Sherrod Brown won't be considered because the Democratic Party's activist core is incurably devoted to identity politics - the proposition that people are whatever their gender is (or their race or ethnicity or sexual orientation or whatever seems stupendously important at the moment). And the party's base seems determined to nominate and elect a woman, thereby proving that what has occurred in Britain, Germany, Israel, India, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other nations can happen here. Feel the excitement.

Just bite me, G. Effing.

One Democratic senator quickly got 20 colleagues to sign a letter expressing support for Yellen, thereby compelling Obama to retreat on his exercise of a core presidential power, that of making nominations. The impudent perpetrator of this act of lese-majeste was Brown, who said that, given more time, he could have gotten the signatures of up to 27 members of the Democratic caucus. He has sponsored legislation to codify, with caps on insured deposits, the principle that a bank too big to fail is too big to exist. He is impeccably wrong, meaning progressive, about free trade. He is for "fair trade," a.k.a. protectionism disguised in Pecksniffian sanctimony demanding that less-developed nations adopt stronger labor and environmental standards. And in 2012, a sign outside the Ohio Democratic Party headquarters proclaimed: "Only vehicles assembled by union workers in North America are welcome in this parking lot."

Do you know a single progressive Democrat, in office or out, who thinks anything but kind thoughts toward Sherrod Brown? The reason his name is not being bruited about for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination is that he's not running for the fcking nomination. Yes, I know that Elizabeth Warren's not running for it, either, but has a bandwagon nonetheless. It's not a great Ovarian Conspiracy. She's just better in front of a crowd, and the idea that either one of them would listen to G. Effing Will about anything as opposed to listening to each other is downright hilarious.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/George_Will_Shares_The_Stupid

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1. Sadly, weak sauce from Mr. Pierce.