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April 06, 2012

David Brooks To Obama: I Just Can't Quit You
— Ace

No link. Here's the more egregious parts of his latest column.

President Obama is an intelligent, judicious man who can see all sides of an issue. But every once in a while he tries to get politically cute, and he puts on his Keith Olbermann mask.

Every once in a while?

When does Obama not "put on a Keith Olbermann mask"? Brooks claims this; he ought to be able to give us some examples when Obama spoke as a nonpartisan, intelligent, judicious statesman.

I suppose itÂ’s to his credit that heÂ’s most inept when he tries to take the low road. He resorts to hoary, brain-dead clichÃ©s. He wanders so far from his true nature that he makes Mitt Romney look like Mr. Authenticity.

When is he ept?

ThatÂ’s pretty much what happened this week in ObamaÂ’s speech before a group of newspaper editors. ObamaÂ’s target in this speech was Representative Paul RyanÂ’s budget.
It should be said at the outset that the Ryan budget has some disturbing weaknesses, which Democrats are right to identify. The Ryan budget would cut too deeply into discretionary spending. This could lead to self-destructive cuts in scientific research, health care for poor kids and programs that boost social mobility.

Later on, he chides Obama thus: " Then he unleashed every 1980s liberal clichÃ© in the book, calling the Republicans a bunch of trickle-down, Trojan horse-bearing social Darwinists."

But didn't Brooks himself just do that, with his litany of woes?

Moreover, the Ryan tax ideas are too regressive. They make tax cuts for the rich explicit while they hide any painful loophole closings that might hurt Republican donors.

How is that regressive? On one hand, he says, Ryan promises, explicitly, tax cuts. In the very next breath, he says Ryan "hides any painful loophole closings that might hurt Republican donors."

Loophole closings like capping the mortgage interest deduction-- that is, increasing the taxable income base of richer people while simultaneously lowering the rate.

That's not regressive. Neither is it progressive. The whole point is to be more or less revenue neutral, and yet increase efficiency and productivity by getting rid of a lot of arbitrary, economic-decision-distorting shelters and loopholes.

All of this applies to better-off Americans. With one hand, a lower rate is granted, with another, the taxable base that rate will be applied to is expanded.

Does David Brooks understand what "regressive" means? Apparently he doesn't.

But these legitimate criticisms and ObamaÂ’s modest but real deficit-reducing accomplishments got buried under an avalanche of distortion. The Republicans have been embarrassing themselves all primary season. ItÂ’s as if Obama wanted to sink to their level in a single hour.

Obama's real deficit-reducing accomplishments?

Like when he walked away from an actual deal, because Democrats told him they needed to run on Mediscare, and could not do so if Democrats joined a useful, sensible deal on Medicare?

I think that's all for David Brooks.

The Warm, Comfortable Cocoon of the New York Times

Where even our "conservative" columnists hate Conservatives and love Obama.

Posted by: Ace at 09:33 AM | Comments (132)
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1 I'm astonished at how well Brooks has mastered his gag reflex.

Posted by: ersta mahnn at April 06, 2012 09:35 AM (GTbGH)

2 Holy sweet Jesus. Someone check David's tongue for genital herpes. He's been sucking on Obama's balls too long.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at April 06, 2012 09:35 AM (4df7R)

3 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:37 AM (8y9MW)

4 The libs seem to be getting more shrill and desperate everyday trying to find a way to protect Obama. I think the mask is beginning to slip...

Posted by: the hobbit fomerly known as Donna at April 06, 2012 09:37 AM (ZHge+)

Obama is a stupid bastard who used Affirmative Action to get his C student ass into Ivy League colleges.

Liberal always use the word "intelligent" to describe blacks, who they really think are just a bunch of stupid fuckups.

Posted by: TexasJew at April 06, 2012 09:38 AM (Bughn)

6 President Obama is an intelligent, judicious man who can see all sides of an issue. Example?

Posted by: Jean at April 06, 2012 09:38 AM (WkuV6)

7 wow, David, he's just not that into you.

Posted by: elizabethe is all dead inside at April 06, 2012 09:38 AM (T03Ll)

8 Is this the same guy that got a chubby looking at Obama's pant leg?

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:38 AM (8sCoq)

9 David who?

Posted by: Cast Iron at April 06, 2012 09:39 AM (EL+OC)

10 LOOK! CREASED PANTS!!!!

Posted by: David Brooks at April 06, 2012 09:39 AM (GQ8sn)

11 Just those quotes may have been the most puerile dreck I've ever read- including some of the "contributions" by some of our less lucid trolls.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:40 AM (8y9MW)

12 programs that boost social mobility. I have to assume Brooks is referring to Obama's largely successful efforts in bringing the middle class down.

Posted by: Jean at April 06, 2012 09:40 AM (WkuV6)

13 >>>Is this the same guy that got a chubby looking at Obama's pant leg? yes, at his "impeccably-creased trousers." Because nothing says "hard worker who understands what's important" like maintaining a sharp crease throughout the day.

Posted by: ace at April 06, 2012 09:40 AM (nj1bB)

14 It takes every fiber of David Brooks' being to stay so obtuse. That kind of willpower is the top qualification to be the New York Times' "House Conservative."

Posted by: Cicero at April 06, 2012 09:40 AM (QKKT0)

15 He wanders so far from his true nature... David Brooks is a sick creepy fuck.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (jUytm)

16 Yes, David, and when he sobers up, he really will stop beating you.

Posted by: elizabethe is all dead inside at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (T03Ll)

17 I read the first paragraph and a half after linking to it from Hot Air. Gagged. He's irredeemably lost.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (1k4dd)

18 Brooks appreciates someone who can make a living with little or no work.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (Sh42X)

19 You have to admit, Obama looks marvelous.

You gonna eat the rest of that?

Posted by: David Frum at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (GTbGH)

20 DEVELOPING: A Navy jet has crashed near a major road in Virginia Beach, an official with the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to Fox News. The two pilots are believed to have ejected safely from the jet, an FA-18 Superhornet, the official said. The plane crashed in a residential area near an apartment complex, according to local media reports. There is no word on injuries. Emergency crews from the military, Virginia State Police and Virginia Beach police are all responding to the scene of the crash. Virginia Department of Transportation traffic cameras showed black smoke rising from the Birdneck Road area of Virginia Beach at 12:30 p.m. local time.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (eCnLg)

21 Because nothing says "hard worker who understands what's important" like maintaining a sharp crease throughout the day.

LOL

Note: not brown nosing like some others.

Posted by: Cast Iron at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (EL+OC)

22 programs that boost social mobility.

Unless you mean downward, Mr. Brooks, please point out one program which "boost ~~social mobility." with any success.~~

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:41 AM (8y9MW)

23 President Obama is an intelligent, judicious man who can see all sides of an issue.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

And she needs to wipe her chin, too.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 06, 2012 09:42 AM (X3lox)

24 David Brooks is actually ok when discussing philosophical or social issues, but he should be banned for life from political commentary.

Posted by: LIGuy at April 06, 2012 09:42 AM (+usC4)

25 Why the gratuitous dowdish swipe at Romney? Oh, that's right. Brooks has to please his masters at the NYT.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 06, 2012 09:42 AM (jUytm)

26 He sees all side of the immigration issue. Its a choice between amnesty and voter cards or aligators and moats.

Posted by: Jimmah at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (UpwlP)

27 Stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: Forrest Gump - CEO Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (d4vjp)

28 Me thinks he doth protest too much....

Posted by: Some old dead Bard at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (lZBBB)

29 FNC says the fa18 crew ARE in a local hosp

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (8sCoq)

30 It never fails to boggle my mind that the NYT and PBS trot this ballwasher out as a "conservative" voice and people actually buy the bullshit.

Posted by: Jaws at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (4I3Uo)

>>Where even our "conservative" columnists hate Conservatives and love Obama.

I hate myself because I'm beautiful.

Posted by: David "Samantha" Brooks-Brick at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (XdlcF)

32 Unless you mean downward, Mr. Brooks, please point out one program which "boost ~~social mobility." with any success.~~

Posted by: David Brooks Pants Creases at April 06, 2012 09:43 AM (Qxe/p)

33 The insulting thing about Brook's piece here is that he forwards the "deficit reduction" meme. We could cut the yearly deficit by half and still be racking up billions to our national debt.

Posted by: extravalue at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (BBlzg)

34 Why the gratuitous dowdish swipe at Romney?
Oh, that's right. Brooks has to please his masters at the NYT.

I think it has nothing to do with pleasing "his masters." I think that's really what he thinks.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (8y9MW)

35 Many people think that its just conspiracy thinking when someone mentions that the left has infiltrated "conservative" media or as actual republican candidates.

The liberal crap that comes out of the mouths of some so called conservative commentors or republicans boggles my mind.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (JIDLg)

36 FNC says the fa18 crew ARE in a local hosp Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 01:43 PM (8sCoq) Unlike obama, real National Defense doesn't take a Holiday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (eCnLg)

37 Couldn't the Times hire a house conservative who's at least American?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (Sh42X)

38 I'm astonished at how well Brooks has mastered his gag reflex.>>

It's a necessary thing to learn when your clit is located so deep in your throat.

Posted by: Linda Lovlace Taught Brooks a thing or 2 at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (tf9Ne)

39 The best description I've seen of David Brooks is that he is the Washington Generals to the libs' Harlem Globetrotters at the NY Times. He's there to make an entertaining show of it. He's not there to win.

Posted by: Cicero at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (QKKT0)

I think that's all for David Brooks.[i/]

Pretty much.

This could lead to self-destructive cuts in scientific research, health care for poor kids and programs that boost social mobility.[i/]

I believe David is mostly concerned about his own social mobility.

Posted by: Decaf at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (cBR/s)

41 David Brooks is actually ok when discussing philosophical or social issues, but he should be banned for life from political commentary.

Posted by: LIGuy at April 06, 2012 01:42 PM (+usC4)

He's an idiot. I wouldn't trust him to help a 10 year old with their homework.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 06, 2012 09:44 AM (X3lox)

42 The italics have attacked again.

Posted by: Vinnie Vega at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (d4vjp)

43 David Brooks still is employed as a columnist and the New York Times still is being published??

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (f8XyF)

44 I always knew that David Brooks was a homo-liberal. But I never knew until today the depth of Brooks' ignorance. He really believes the lie that the GOP is the "party of Wall Street."

Posted by: soothsayer at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (jUytm)

45 Brooks, don't believe that they think you are some sort of "Reasonable Conservative" they don't. They only say that to marginalize me (us) and once I (we) are gone, don't be stunned when they turn the same weapons they have been using on us onto you.

You are the poster child of a useful idiot. Useful in that your constant prattle weakens conservative political position, a political expediency for the left, an idiot because you don't realize that I will kick your ass and you will take the bottom bunk at the re-education camp of loving kindness.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose now with dark clouds! at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (0q2P7)

46 All your italics are belong to us!

Posted by: Vinnie Vega at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (d4vjp)

.....""puts on his Keith Olbermann mask.""

This apparently is Brooks-speak for "flaming demagogue"?

But Ace is right. ....Obama is like this, all...the...time. ....He takes momentary breaks from agitating and demagogueing only when he is trying to appear to be something that he is not.

Posted by: wheatie at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (+5U+B)

48 David Brooks IS the Straw Man.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (X3lox)

49
The insulting thing about Brook's piece here is that he forwards the "deficit reduction" meme.

Indeed, but they want people to hear "debt" when they say "deficit." It mostly works, too.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:45 AM (8y9MW)

50 This fawning over any politician by a reporter or pundit is sickening. At least when Ace does it, he dons a fur suit.

Posted by: mike at April 06, 2012 09:46 AM (yyxSW)

51 Sigh.

Posted by: [/i]AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:46 AM (8y9MW)

52 4 The libs seem to be getting more shrill and desperate everyday trying to find a way to protect Obama. I think the mask is beginning to slip...

Posted by: the hobbit fomerly known as Donna at April 06, 2012 01:37 PM (ZHge+)

You should go to the NYT and read the comments. Good grief, the libs still believe Barry is The One.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 06, 2012 09:46 AM (UOM48)

53 bunch of dweebs

Posted by: David Frum at April 06, 2012 09:46 AM (GTbGH)

54 'Obama signaled Khamenei that U.S. could accept civilian nuclear program in Iran' Washington Post's David Ignatius says U.S. president passed a message to Iran, through Turkish PM Erdogan, that he could agree to a civilian nuclear program if Tehran proved it was not building a nuclear bomb. I know this was posted before, but this is one of the stupidest things an American President has ever done. Absolute weakness. Makes me want to cry

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:46 AM (eCnLg)

55 David Brooks IS the Straw Man.

I'd prefer him as the Wicker Man.

Posted by: toby928© at April 06, 2012 09:47 AM (GTbGH)

56 The Ryan budget essentially takes us back to Clinton circa 1998.

Funny, I don't recall the "self-destructive cuts in scientific research, health care for poor kids and programs that boost social mobility."

Maybe Mr. Brooks can put me some f'in knowledge.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at April 06, 2012 09:47 AM (PzAEW)

57 Both sides of his huge deficit: increasing taxes on a few billionaires who can afford it or starving little children while poisoning our drinking water

Posted by: Mr Pink at April 06, 2012 09:47 AM (5RgAv)

58 Unless you mean downward, Mr. Brooks, please point out one program which "boost ~~social mobility." with any success.~~

Lemme try that again.

His marvelous home loan program has successfully mobilized many Americans. In all directions, not just south!

Posted by: David Brooks Pants Creases at April 06, 2012 09:47 AM (Qxe/p)

59 >It never fails to boggle my mind that the NYT and PBS trot this ballwasher out as a "conservative" voice and people actually buy the bullshit.

Posted by: Jaws at April 06, 2012 01:43 PM (4I3Uo)

David Brooks writes his crap as the NYT's in-house conservative (read 'pet'), then some senior editor comes down to his office and pats Brooks on the head and gives him a treat

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:48 AM (8sCoq)

60 Washington Post's David Ignatius says U.S. president passed a message to Iran, through Turkish PM Erdogan, that he could agree to a civilian nuclear program if Tehran proved it was not building a nuclear bomb.

I know this was posted before, but this is one of the stupidest things an American President has ever done. Absolute weakness. Makes me want to cry

Sounds like quite a sensible approach to me.

Posted by: Zombie Neville Chamberlain at April 06, 2012 09:48 AM (QKKT0)

61 he could agree to a civilian nuclear program if Tehran proved it was not building a nuclear bomb.

How do you prove a negative?

Of course, what he really means is "Tell us you're not doing it, and we promise to be surprised when you do," but this is an asinine statement.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:48 AM (8y9MW)

62 Turkish PM Erdogan

Isn't he Barry's sharia law lovin' butt buddy? The one who give Baraka advice on raising his daughters?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 06, 2012 09:48 AM (UOM48)

63 This Brooks guy is quite the idiot.

Posted by: Bosk at April 06, 2012 09:48 AM (n2K+4)

64 he could agree to a civilian nuclear program if Tehran proved it was not building a nuclear bomb.

That requirement to prove there are no pink elephants is what will save Israel.

Posted by: Retread at April 06, 2012 09:48 AM (joSBv)

Hmmm... just reread this... I think he is arguing with himself.

He's trying to convince himself that his 'perception' of Obama as the Great Thinker and Speaker, is the reality, even though his eyes and ears are telling him differently.

Which step is 'Denial'? first? and then comes Anger? which he is on the verge of?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 06, 2012 09:49 AM (lZBBB)

66 What proof do we have that this worthless person of cock suckage is smart? Just because he went to ivy league schools? Means nothing to me. Makes me suspect an ivy league education, because Obama is NOT smart. In fact, I posit that he is dumb as a sack of hammers.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 06, 2012 09:49 AM (jucos)

67 > U.S. president passed a message to Iran, through Turkish PM Erdogan, that he could agree to a civilian nuclear program if Tehran proved it was not building a nuclear bomb.

so obama is telling Imadinnerjacket 'you can fuck me, if you promise not to cum in mouth'

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:49 AM (8sCoq)

68 Both sides of the healthcare bill: give free healthcare to everyone with no loss of freedom or ill effects or let people die in the street while banning birth control

Posted by: Mr Pink at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (5RgAv)

69 Jane smacks the blog and it sits up straight.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (XdlcF)

70 Of course, what he really means is "Tell us you're not doing it, and we promise to be surprised when you do," but this is an asinine statement. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 01:48 PM (8y9MW) It's mortally dangerous and I hope and pray Israel is listening on this Erev Passover

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (eCnLg)

71 I posit that he is dumb as a sack of hammers.

You'll be hearing from our lawyers, sir.

Posted by: Hammers Local #2985 at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (8y9MW)

72 Yo, David! These balls don't suck themselves!

Posted by: Obama at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (bf/PR)

73 "Then he unleashed every 1980s liberal clichÃ© in the book, " Umm, because that's what he is. Look, many of us went through a period when we were in college where we were, naively, liberal. Then you graduate, get a job, support yourself, pay taxes, and grow up. Liberals like hollywood types, and Obama, are people who never grew up. Hollywood types, politicians, and college professors don't have to grow up. I don't know what is wrong with other liberals, other than the welfare types, and union members who are liberals in order to pad their own bank accounts.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (mAZiW)

74 he offers a bunch of boilerplate insights about current trends and passes it off as some allegedly enlightened conservatism.

The Bobos right? It's as if curious got a job writing for the Times.

Posted by: toby928© at April 06, 2012 09:50 AM (GTbGH)

75 @69

sorry if that was over-the-top graphic

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:51 AM (8sCoq)

76 so obama is telling Imadinnerjacket 'you can fuck me, if you promise not to cum in mouth' Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 01:49 PM (8sCoq) That and also you can piss all over me, just tell me it's raining

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:51 AM (eCnLg)

77 so obama is telling Imadinnerjacket 'you can fuck me, if you promise not to cum in mouth'

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 01:49 PM (8sCoq)

No. He's telling Imadinjedhd, "You can fuck America and do whatever you want. That's what I'm doing. I'm taking these bastards down."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 06, 2012 09:51 AM (X3lox)

78 I really like this: and programs that boost social mobility. Hard work boosts social mobility. Even NYT columnists should know that.

Posted by: MJ at April 06, 2012 09:51 AM (/x4oj)

79 Most of my lefty facebook friends that unfriended me was wayyy back during the not-stimulus when I was linking some very mild criticisms of it from the likes of David Brooks and Ross Douthat. Imagine being that insecure about your own political beliefs that even the NYT house "conservatives" showing the slightest wondering upset them enough to abandon friendships.

A taste of what we are up against. Conventional weapons of reasoning will work to persuade some but against the more entombed .... wise we must be.

Posted by: Shiggz RocketSurgeon at April 06, 2012 09:51 AM (RfvTE)

80 >I posit that he is dumb as a sack of hammers.

actually, hammers are smart. A hammer knows it does one thing very well, and shouldn't try to be anything else.

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:52 AM (8sCoq)

81 To all of the tribesmen and women on the blog. Happy Pasach. May G-b bless you and yours. Happy Easter to those of the Christian persuasion.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 06, 2012 09:52 AM (jucos)

82 Israel: the clock is ticking

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:52 AM (eCnLg)

83 re: Iran "They're going to do it, anyway," will be the reason why Obama is smart to make this deal with Iran.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 06, 2012 09:53 AM (jUytm)

84 Hard work boosts social mobility. Even NYT columnists should know that.

Why would they know that? They've never worked hard in their lives, for the most part. And the ones who have think their social mobility was because of "being given a break," or some crap, not the hard work and effort they put in first.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 06, 2012 09:53 AM (8y9MW)

Hmmm...didn't know that destroying our country was politicallty cute.

**fuckwit loser**

**spit**

Posted by: dananjcon at April 06, 2012 09:53 AM (8ieXv)

86 >To all of the tribesmen and women on the blog. Happy Pasach. May G-b bless you and yours. Happy Easter to those of the Christian persuasion.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 06, 2012 01:52 PM (jucos)

reminds me to get out "The Ten Commandments" dvd for the annual viewing

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 09:54 AM (8sCoq)

87 pay attention idiots and learn some thing

cuts in bear spending in pual ryan budget is the

total unexeptable to any one that cares about how

the earth has a fever and hurting bears and samlons

we cuold just sell like part of the army and have alot

of extra mony for saving bear spending pretty easy

nice job pual ryan way too think it throgh idiot

#JusticeForBeldron

Posted by: Jose Canseco's Gristle Encased Head at April 06, 2012 09:55 AM (+lsX1)

"Liberals like hollywood types, and Obama, are people who never grew up. Hollywood types, politicians, and college professors don't have to grow up."

Just yesterday I read David Mamet's take on this in his "The Secret Knowledge".

Posted by: Decaf at April 06, 2012 09:56 AM (cBR/s)

89 Posted by: nerdygirl at April 06, 2012 01:50 PM (mAZiW) The ones who aren't on welfare or in unions basically just never grew up. At least that's true of those I know.

Posted by: Mandy P. voted and is All Dead Inside now at April 06, 2012 09:56 AM (qFpRI)

90 Why would they know that? ------------------------------------- They wouldn't know it from experience, but I'll bet you 1 million Sweet Swine Pork Rind hats that if you asked David Brooks how he got where he is, he'd tell you...hard work. I'm not saying he's a product of it, but he should at least be familiar with the concept.

Posted by: MJ at April 06, 2012 09:57 AM (/x4oj)

Navy Jet crash in VA...developing.

Drudge

Posted by: dananjcon at April 06, 2012 09:57 AM (8ieXv)

92 To all of the tribesmen and women on the blog. Happy Pasach. May G-b bless you and yours. Happy Easter to those of the Christian persuasion. Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 06, 2012 01:52 PM (jucos) Amen I just got my haircut and there was this orthodox ( Jewish) family there also. Since my buzz cut is fast I left first and and as I passed I said "Happy Holidays" in hebrew to the Dad. He kinda looked at me and glanced at my shirt which said "LCDR Jewish Name" and said thank-you and your to and then I said please don't vote for obama. He smiled and said don't worry. All in a days work.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2012 09:57 AM (eCnLg)

93 #JusticeForBeldron

Al Gore's turning over in his grave.

Posted by: dick cheese at April 06, 2012 09:57 AM (GTbGH)

94 Ann Althouse was making a very similar argument the other day, the moderate obama and the leftwing obama. Althouse likes it better when Barry bothers to lie to her.

Posted by: Entropy at April 06, 2012 09:57 AM (TULs6)

95 Ike, tell me you love me?

Posted by: Tina Turner at April 06, 2012 09:58 AM (/x4oj)

96 So what Brook is attempting to say is Barry is really, really, really, really, really, really the greatest ever but sometimes he can be to clever for his own good and should go after the bad Republicans in a much better way

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 06, 2012 09:59 AM (1Jaio)

Somebody is "embarrassing themselves" here...and in this case, it ain't the Republicans.....

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at April 06, 2012 09:59 AM (YmPwQ)

98 78 @69

sorry if that was over-the-top graphic

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 06, 2012 01:51 PM (8sCoq)

Meh...sometimes the truth is nasty.

Posted by: dananjcon at April 06, 2012 09:59 AM (8ieXv)

99 When it comes to writing style, Maureen Dowd's prose is far more butch than David Brooks' diffident, finger-sandwich horsesh*t.

Posted by: mrp at April 06, 2012 10:01 AM (HjPtV)

100

David Brooks is not "curious". "Curious" is his daughter.

Ann Althouse is his sister.

These people are all the same, with their dime-store rationalizations.

We are all screwed.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at April 06, 2012 10:01 AM (sJTmU)

101 Oh my. Ms. Brooks need professional help. He's more effeminate than Sandra Fluck with his prose and Zero worship.

Posted by: eureka! at April 06, 2012 10:01 AM (LQIyD)

102 Not knowing much at all about this dweeb, I took a rumble thru wiki on him. "Originally a liberal." Yeah. Okay. Then I found this little blurb:

Brooks has long been a supporter of John McCain; however, he did not show a liking for McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin, calling her a "cancer" on the Republican Party.[24] He has referred to her as a "joke," unlikely to ever win the Republican nomination.[25] But he later admitted during a CSPAN interview that he had gone too far in his previous "cancer" comments about Palin, which he regretted, and simply stated he was not a fan of her values.[26]

Oh, in December he gave the jug eared f*ck a B-. There's that U of Chicago history degree paying off big time. Hey, isn't that where Billy Boy Ayers teaches?

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 06, 2012 10:02 AM (ccXZP)

103 Brooks is not unfamiliar with the taste of penis.

Posted by: dick cheese at April 06, 2012 10:03 AM (GTbGH)

104 What a coincidence. Just last night on the radio Barack dedicated this to David Brooks. http://bit.ly/HsHPKU

Posted by: Javelina Bomb at April 06, 2012 10:07 AM (VGlJT)

105 Brooks's only problem with the Korean penis park? No statue of Obama there.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at April 06, 2012 10:08 AM (QTHTd)

106

"Judicious"? Brooks must believe Palin about the death panels.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at April 06, 2012 10:08 AM (qwK3S)

107 **spit**

How ungentlemanly. I never spit.

Posted by: David Brooks at April 06, 2012 10:09 AM (QTHTd)

108

There isn't a speck of truthfulness to the tripe Brooks, Scarborough, Frum, Andi, etc. peddle every day. They are actors and not much different than pro wrasslin' bad guys on TV. They are Democrats who don and then trash the conservative label for the purpose of garnering power for Democrats from low-information voters.

With wrasslin' bad guys, it's entertaining because it's just a show. With these political pundit clowns, it's not just a show. It's our lives and our futures. That's not very entertaining.

Posted by: Jaws at April 06, 2012 10:16 AM (4I3Uo)

109 117 **spit**

How ungentlemanly. I never spit.

Posted by: David Brooks at April 06, 2012 02:09 PM (QTHTd)

Don't I know it!

Posted by: Barak at April 06, 2012 10:19 AM (8ieXv)

110 ...health care for poor kids and ~~programs~~ pogroms that boost social mobility.
Fixed. Brooks can't even type well; and so much for the Times's vaunted proofreaders.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 06, 2012 10:19 AM (6RnvM)

111 I wonder where Obama keeps David Brooks' genitals? Do you think he keeps them in a drawer where he can admire them every once in a while or do you think they're nailed to a wall like a trophy elk where everyone can see them?

Posted by: Javelina Bomb at April 06, 2012 10:25 AM (VGlJT)

112 David Brooks is actually quite stupid but even worse is that he isn't a thinker on any level. He feels a cultural connection to Obama. That's enough.

I hate to keep beating this dead horse, but the man majored in history. When did he ever have to develop an original thought? Not even a novel thought, just one that he arrived at on his own.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 06, 2012 10:25 AM (T0NGe)

113 David Brooks to Obama: Harder! I still don't feel anything.

Posted by: ThepRimordialOrderedPair at April 06, 2012 10:26 AM (X3lox)

114 I'm about to wander far from my true nature...in your mouth.

Posted by: Michael at April 06, 2012 10:29 AM (Hl5ka)

115 "self-destructive cuts in scientific research, health care for poor kids and programs that boost social mobility."

Uh, outside of health care for poor kids (medicaid, which is bankrupting us) why the hell is my government supposed to pay for these things? And what the feck does this feckless snow ninny mean by "programs that boost social mobility"?

The boy Brooks here has a painfully obvious and frightfully unrequited crush on Halitosis Nero.

It's just embarrassing to read, much less live through.

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at April 06, 2012 10:29 AM (eNURf)

116 And funding for scientific research is just payments to EXTREMELY well-paid elite science profs to do work that nobody cares about, endless diversity initiatives and payoffs to universities.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 06, 2012 10:35 AM (T0NGe)

117 " judicious man who can see all sides of an issue." As long as they reside next to a box that he can check.

Posted by: LASue at April 06, 2012 10:36 AM (I1icO)

118 Insiders at the White House know David as "Our Miss Brooks".

Posted by: Sherlock at April 06, 2012 10:39 AM (8ra42)

119 maybe dave and intern in charge can get the smoosh room when Mz. flooke and the situation are done

Posted by: old glazier at April 06, 2012 10:47 AM (KcINh)

120 Althouse - yeah, entropy, her regulars tore her a new one with that post she made begging the SCOAMF to promise he wouldn't come in her mouth again. Like Dennis Miller said, she got stomped like a narc at a biker rally.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Clitoris at April 06, 2012 10:50 AM (zF6Iw)

121 It's odd that government workers, who seem to be the least "go-getter" type of workers out there, are allegedly so good at designing programs which enable social mobility, at least in the minds of people like Brooks (assuming he believes that BS to begin with). Seems to me that government workers are much better at designing programs that either lead to socio-economic stagnation by removing incentives for upward mobility or programs which reward political cronies over people who are less-connected but better able to produce results.

It's all just a nonstop torrent of bullshit designed to protect the government racket which funnels money from the taxpayers' pockets to incompetent but loyal lackies.

Posted by: BS Inc. at April 06, 2012 10:50 AM (P2Ufm)

122 David Brooks would know a conservative or conservative idea if it crawled up his ass and ate the corn from his stool. Graphic enough?

Posted by: Rich K at April 06, 2012 11:30 AM (X4l3T)

123 Oh, c'mon Ace! That was one of the funniest Brooks columns evah! I had to take a break after reading the first two or three paragraphs, I was laughing so hard.

All I can say now is that I want to invest in the paper towel concession for all of the slobber that David Brooks has to wipe off of his chin whenever he writes about Teh One.

Posted by: dissent555 at April 06, 2012 11:46 AM (yR6A1)

124 If you want to truly be amazed, read the insane comments from the NY Times readers, one and all accusing Brooks of being a far right extremist. To these lunatics, Brooks isn't liberal enough. Obama is a hero, the Republicans are murderous thugs, and it's all Bush's fault. No consensus will ever be reached with these lefts cretins.

Posted by: Dave at April 06, 2012 12:10 PM (jR40i)

125 David Brooks is just an easier way to spell sycophant. Jay Carney's name warns you what to expect. Peggy Noonan is showing signs of sentience, after three years of being flogged like a rented mule.

They ignore the inflation the rest of us see every day, at the pump and in the store. They believe that only 8.2% of the population is unemployed. What is in their Kool-Aid?

Posted by: MarkD at April 06, 2012 12:18 PM (iYBP2)

126 wish I had time to read all the comments (gotta go kidnap a gentile baby so I can make matzoh the old fashioned way), but did anyone comment on this line from Brooks?

"I suppose itÂ’s to his credit that heÂ’s most inept when he tries to take the low road. He resorts to hoary, brain-dead clichÃ©s. He wanders so far from his true nature that he makes Mitt Romney look like Mr. Authenticity."

"his true identity"..? Still Brooks cannot figure out that "his true identity" is the guy who sounds like a left wing dolt whenever he looks away from the teleprompter?

People like Mencken and Hitchens were brilliant when they took the low road because they were brilliant. Obama will look like a dolt no matter which road he takes, which is why we gotta put him on the one way road back to Chicago in November

Posted by: mallfly at April 06, 2012 12:31 PM (bJm7W)

127 Anyone who fawns that much over President Obama is sublimating some serious racism.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 06, 2012 12:45 PM (ES9R7)

128 The NY Times cocoon must be better than pussy for these guys to give up all of their credibility to bask in its warm embrace.

Posted by: Voluble at April 06, 2012 12:56 PM (C9bRU)

129 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at April 06, 2012 01:01 PM (7W3wI)

130 "he Ryan budget has some disturbing weaknesses, which Democrats are right to identify. The Ryan budget would cut too deeply into discretionary spending. This could lead to self-destructive cuts in scientific research, health care for poor kids and programs that boost social mobility."

Damn, I wish I'd said that.

Posted by: President Emiritus, and your humble servant, Barak Obama at April 06, 2012 05:24 PM (rz0yi)

131

Clarence Thomas gave a talk at UK recently. When asked whether he read The New York Times every day, Thomas replied, "Oh, God, no!"

A good lesson for all intelligent people. We know what they will print. We are surrounded by their emanations and penumbras from the moment we wake to the time we fall asleep. Why bother going to the source of the pollution when we wade in it knee deep every blessed day. Anyone here can write a David Brooks column or one by Maureen Dowd or Paul Krugman without breaking a sweat because they are utterly predictable. They give Rush Limbaugh half the material he uses to ridicule them. I began reading BrooksÂ’ column (it was printed in my local paper) but after the first sentence I stopped because I knew the rest of it was waste of my life.

The paper is printed for its audience, itÂ’s an ongoing inside joke. They thrive on attention; they sell eyeballs to advertisers. DonÂ’tÂ’ help them.

Posted by: Moneyrunner at April 07, 2012 04:00 AM (PZYuq)

132 The lesson to be learned from Obama's meltdown this week when he, at long last, suffered a setback is that he is not a graceful loser. His life is composed of easy victories and sweetheart deals. He has not struggled. He has never been knocked on his butt. He has never lost. Losing is a new experience for Obama and one he does not know how to handle. At heart, Obama is a whiny, entitled wimp. This week's meltdown foreshadows larger meltdowns to come. There will come a point where even sycophants like Brooks will lose their faith in Obama and turn viciously on him for making fools of them.

Posted by: Tantor at April 07, 2012 04:26 AM (93gTR)

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