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Brooks is just a very useful idiot.
But it’s writing like this that gets him invited to all the cool Upper East Side of Manhattan cocktail parties.
Tool.
Of course it is the Republicans fault that Democrats are such fanatics.
I can’t wait for Mr. Brook’s next admonition that Republicans need a big tent to win elections, what with him throwing so many out into the cold.
Brooks and brains?
Yeah, right.
Where does this Main Line zombie socialist cunt Brooks begin? Anyone? What’s his start and what the end toward which he’d move?
MLZSC just doesn’t have the lilting bite WASP has though, does it?
I haven’t seen them cave yet, so I’m not going to judge until that happens (or doesn’t happen).
Brooks sucks Commiecrat dicks and offers his bunghole to them.
sdferr,
Maybe a more useful question might be, just what kind of palaver would make Brooks any more irrelevant than he is now; following on his most infamous “pants crease-Niebuhr burbling” gushing that would have shamed the writers at “Tiger Beat”.
We all need to be sending our Representatives and Senators copies of this:
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/07/08/why-the-gop-should-reject-tax-increases-in-one-chart/
In case they are afflicted with short memories regarding what happened the last time the Democrats promised to follow through on an “X dollars in cuts for every Y dollars in ‘revenues’ raised” alleged deal. I have a feeling that Big Bush remembers…
Coincidentally, it was a reprise of the famous double-cross they pulled on Ronnie in 1986.
The words change, but the song remains the same…
Short videos on Classical Liberalism, from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason U. (‘member him, the dude who wouldn’t sign off on the Constitution cause it didn’t have a Bill of Rights? He was one.)
h/t Don Boudreaux
I read Missy Brook’s cheese & whine column earlier … I was too disgusted to post about it.
Did you catch this:
Seems like the Op-Ed’s title is quite apposite.
There’s the NYT “conservatives” who write without a clue-
All so called House majority who I fear is less than true-
All the establishment RINOs who sell us down the river-
Just so BHO can portrary himself as moderate and a giver-
And the blame Palin critics that continue to persist-
They’d none of ‘em be missed–
they’d none of ‘em be missed!
I’ve got them on my list.
The RINO motto: “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”
Perhaps that should be translated into Latin.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Twice, me.
Three, TEA.
Want to see something that’ll put a smile on your face? Check this out:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/debt-ceilings-dummies#comment-1436985
Dude makes Obama out to look like something out of Parlaiment-Funkadelic!
Want to see something that’ll put a smile on your face? Check this out:
RACIST!!!
we can have no confidence that the Republicans will seize this opportunity. That’s because the Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative.
Just keep nudging that Overton Window, Brooks. The farther Left you go, the more the baby Jefferson cries.
It can’t be racist Abe, it’s coming from a melanin-challenged anti-corpratists, certified Bankstah-H8ter, and self-admitted Obama voter.
Which, you know, makes it all soooooo much sweeter :)
Now renowned juice-box mafiosi Conor Friedersdorf:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-case-for-a-primary-challenge-against-obama/241592/
Calling for Obama to be primaried, and using the word “unlawful” in a sentance describing some of Obama’s executive acts? Now that’s clearly racist.
nishi could not be reached for comment, but is probably as distressed as the commentariat at The Atlantic by even giving voice to this sentiment.
Plopping this on this thread as it is a bit of all today’s postings:
Why is everyone assuming conventional wisdom that a 3rd party (TEA party) would automatically assure an Obama win? I would be curious to see how many Ds that would never vote R (yellow dog types) could actually be persuaded to jump to a new party without all that R stigma attached to it. As Zell says, “I didn’t leave my party, my party left me.”
The TEA party would not be a Nader redo nor a Perot redo as vast quantities of the boots on the ground Rs are the ones that would be defecting. Plus, I would bet that the number of folks who could be persuaded to vote the TEA party over the D party is significantly larger than the numbers that left for Perot last time around. Ditto for Reagan. And if the TEA party destroys the R party to the extent that I believe it will (what ground game will they have left?), the R party will be the party left in the single digits. Which I think will be significantly less than the number of D defections to the TEA party for an overall net gain in pulling the 3rd party manouever off. The question that is relevant is ‘will the increase in Ds defecting to the TEA party be large enough to overcome the Rs left in the R party?’ Someone needs to attempt to quantify this number.
I’d like to see some true modeling on this and I don’t mean polling. Just as Obama benefited by the ‘lemming factor’ the TEA party would also, so current polling based on current breakdowns (which are BS anyways (46 sample for dems? please)) would be unable to quantify the results. It needs outside the box thinking and Rasmussen and the establishment handicappers (Cook, Sabato) aren’t equipped to visualize the variables that would come into play… I think they could actually win it all.
I imagine ickle Romneykins lights a hot little fire in the hearts of all those stalwart Rs who voted for Meghan’s coward daddy in the 08 primary. They’re not going to jump ship and indulge in any upstart third party shenanigans. And they are legion. Or at least there’s no shortage of them.
A deal that still leaves us with massive deficits is “sound fiscal footing”? Bartender, I’ll have what Mr. Brooks is having, for I surely need to leave reason behind for a spell.
I would be curious to see how many Ds that would never vote R (yellow dog types) could actually be persuaded to jump to a new party without all that R stigma attached to it.
Methinks that those who are squicked out by voting GOP because of the negative stereotype would be double-squicked, becuase the TEA Party is portrayed as the scary fringe of the GOP.
You know, sloped foreheads and white sheets and stuff.
Krauthammer, on Brooks’ so-called ‘conservatism’…
David “Babbling” Brooks. Dam him.
He’s open to all views…. just lies back and enjoys it.
You’d think a man of his age would have learned to make up his mind by now. Open to all views. It is to scoff.
I have a feeling that he’s made up his mind.
He has the maid do that every morning for him. She turns it down in the evening too so it doesn’t overheat at night in dreams.