The mid-term elections are less than a month away. Many of us have already made up our minds whom we will vote for. I'd like to remind many people of a national editorial written by eminent conservative columnist George Will in June. He urged people to vote against the GOP this November. Why?
He wrote, "The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution's Article I powers." And, "Ryan and many other Republicans have become the president's poodles, not because James Madison's system has failed but because today's abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it." "Congressional Republicans. have no higher ambition than to placate this president. By leaving dormant the powers inherent in their institution, they vitiate the Constitution's vital principle: the separation of powers."
"In today's GOP, which is the president's plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party's cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation's honor while quarantining him."
I know the prospect of voting against Republicans may be a terrible thought for some. I ask you to consider Mr. Will's advice that such a vote could be in the best interests of the nation we all treasure. So think twice before you do what you've always done. Consider the nation's honor.
Andrew Zeiler
Gem Village
