George Will Compares Obamacare To Fugitive Slave Act, Segregation

[Capt. Obvious]

Conservative columnist and pundit George Will on Wednesday compared Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Act and segregation to demonstrate the "bruising, untidy, utterly Democratic" process of changing laws.

In an interview with NPR's "Morning Edition," host Steve Inskeep asked Will about President Barack Obama's argument that Republicans are short-circuiting the system by using government funding and the debt ceiling as leverage to dismantle Obamacare, rather than repealing the law outright.

"How does this short-circuit the system?" Will said. "I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them."

C'mon George! Isn't it more like the Nuremberg Laws?

[el_bryanto]

1. This is something of conservative are saying.

It's like the other day I was turning left from the right turn lane, cutting off two other cars and nearly hitting a pedestrian, and a lot of people started getting on my case. I turn left all the time. Everybody turns left. And now all of a sudden people are acting like taking a left turn was somehow crazy. People need to get a grip!

Bryant

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Then win the Senate and the White House then dismantle it you fucking jagoff. That's how it works.nt

[Ikonoklast]

3. George Will is a sanctimonious phony who few pay attention to anymore.

The Shouters have all overshadowed him, so he's trying to be outrageous in order to garner attention.

Douchebag Of Smarm.

[spanone]

4. will threw all journalistic integrity down the toilet when he joined faux

[bigtree]

5. yeah, like he supported the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act

. . . cretin.

[JHB]

6. If I recall correctly, what ended the Fugitive Slave Acts was...

...the slave states attempting to secede, attacking Federal fortifications and military forces, and civil war, one outcome of which was the elimination of slavery and concomitant elimination of fugitive slave laws.


I also recall that it happened when certain political forces in this country were so thoroughly stoned on their own hot air that they believed themselves clairvoyant about what the incoming Lincoln administration would do, and so engaged in their secession without any actual action against them.

In the present, it's not the Democrats who are suffering from a hallucination problem, George.

[kpete]

7. just saying...

George Will has jumped the shark, bowtie and all.

peace, kp

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. +1

[ehrnst]

8. Yeah, George, they were all changed when conservatives made them a budget issue...

NOT.

[Xyzse]

9. I love NPR but they have been upsetting me lately

I fear they are not giving equal representation to points of views lately.
Ever since the shut down, I've heard mostly views from the "Right"/"Conservatives" lately, allowing them to just go on and on without substantial challenging questions to provide balance.

[theglammistress]

10. Yep

I was VERY diappointed with Morning Edition today during the Raul Labrador interview. Labrador was allowed to spout lie after lie without any correction. Then the station broke away for a fundraising pitch --- not exactly the way to get donors from liberal supporters!

[Xyzse]

11. I don't know what is going on with them

[BeeBee]

12. He's going to fit right in at Fox News! n/t