...George Will & Howard Dean Agree: Our Political Parties Aren't Doing Their Constitutional Duty

[DonViejo]

On Morning Joe, George Will and Howard Dean Agree: Our Political Parties Aren’t Doing Their Constitutional Duty

by Caleb Howe | 8:51 am, June 25th, 2018

On Morning Joe on Monday, columnist and author George Will and former DNC Chair Howard Dean were on together to assess the current health of the political parties in the United States, and the diagnosis wasn’t great. Host Joe Scarborough, following a discussion of poll numbers, asked Will and Dean about about “the long-term impact of this for Reagan’s party, for Lincoln’s party?”

George Will blasted the Republican party under Trump, something he’s done a lot of recently. So much, in fact, that he has denounced the Republican congress and advocated voting against them. He spares them no mercy here, either.

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Dean was likewise critical of his own party.

“I think what’s happening is the Congress is moving itself to irrelevancy, and I’m shocked” said Dean. Like Will, Dean’s diagnosis of the politicians in Congress rests on their degree of compliance to and cooperation with Trump, and the shirking of Constitutional responsibility.

“I grew up when the Congress reasserted itself after Nixon and I think all that’s gone,” he said. “They’re — I’ve never seen a Congress with this little willingness to take on the chief executive.”

The two very different political figures agree, they do not find the Republic in good health.

Will is pointing out that not only do we as a nation tend view every election nationally, eve the local ones, but that in the case of Republicans in 2018, it is national locally in actual fact, because Republicans adhere directly to the president’s will.

more + video:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/on-morning-joe-george-will-and-howard-dean-agree-our-political-parties-arent-doing-their-constitutional-duty/

[Iliyah]

1. He's a Republican, Dean and they do back stab.

[librechik]

2. I want a moratorium on "Both sides do it"

until we get the criminal elements separated out and can count noses.

[beachbum bob]

3. Democrats have no power, so wtf is with Dean?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. For real

[beachbum bob]

6. He just can't help himself when a mic is in front of him...

To, me...shames all of us working to take back our country

[zipplewrath]

7. Did you actually listen?

Dean doesn't criticize democrats. He criticizes congress. He's shocked at the degree that congress has abdicated their constitutional role. He alludes to the fact that the "leadership" in the party isn't coming so much from Washington, as it is from the grass roots at the local levels.

[lagomorph777]

8. Caleb Howe inserted "Dean was likewise critical of his own party" as a sly editorial lie.

It doesn't match what Dean said, at all.

[zipplewrath]

9. Careful reading of the transcript shows that.

He mentions congress several time, but only mentions democrats in terms of where and with whom he is working.

[Blue_Adept]

5. Did Dean actually say what Democrats SHOULD be doing?

Always lots of "Dems should do more" without saying what.