Brooks: 'Tragedy' If Republicans Reject More Government, Higher Taxes

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

If a RINO is a Republican In Name Only, let's coin a new acronym for David Brooks: RINYTO: Republican In New York Times Only. For only in the Gray Lady's bailiwick could Brooks be considered much of a Republican.

Take his current column in the Times. Brooks warns Republicans on the verge of regaining power that it would be nothing short of a "tragedy" if they were to oppose . . . more government and higher taxes.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

“Republican” Brooks wants more government, higher taxes. Ping to Today show list.

[jessduntno]

Does anyone buy his “conservative” beard shtick anymore? The MSM trots him out when they need to tut tut over something.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Brooks is a strawman conservative. He parrots the things his masters at the NYTimes want a good little “conservative” to say.

[shankbear]

Can everybody say “douchenozzle?”

[a fool in paradise]

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[Seruzawa]

Only at the NYT could Brooks be considered a conservative. Well, maybe the LAT too.

[Brilliant]

I’m not sure he’s a Republican. He claims to be a conservative. In the NYT, Karl Marx is a conservative.

[True Grit]

How about spending less.

[Disambiguator]

Does anyone buy his “conservative” beard shtick anymore? The MSM trots him out when they need to tut tut over something.

Speaking of beards, he looks less than masculine in that picture, if you catch my drift.

[newfreep]

Brooks is as much a socialist as Mark “Maxie” Shields.

[ScottinVA]

In the NYT, Karl Marx is a conservative.

And Pol Pot is considered "centrist."

[Nonstatist]

There are millions of voters who, while alarmed by the Democrats’ lavish spending, still look to government to play some positive role.

What a stupid knee jerk cliche. What about all the government spending before the Democraps took over? By what indice was that "too little" ? Why does that not deserve a debate?.. This guy is just a shill.

[tflabo]

Is that the face of a true conservative? He’s got the look of an enlightened Northeast inside the Beltway elitist moderate at best.

[Mouton]

Hey Brooksie...Just keep thinking that way and tell everyone around the NYT writers’ areas of your beliefs. Maybe you can even get (o)bama to utter the same words too. I hope the entire Dem ticket utters those words.

[ontap]

David Brooks is a Moron!!

[Le Chien Rouge]

Dear Mr Brooks,

Since you sincerely believe that higher taxes and a larger federal government are necessary for society to continue, please forward your voluntary contribution to:

ATTN Dept G
Bureau of the Public Dept
PO BOX 2188
Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188

In the memo section, notate that your check is a gift to reduce public debt.

Thank You!!!

Let’s start holding these folks who want higher taxes, feet to the fire. Put yer money where your mouth is.

[Signalman]

Brooks apparently believes we don't have enough government and that taxes are too low. I'd say that makes him a Republican only in the rarefied air of 8th Ave. between 40th & 41st streets.

Port Authority Bus Terminal?

[cowboyusa]

Brooks is a Hamiltonian. And Hamiltonian's are not on the Right. The old Hamiltonian Jacksonian/Jeffersonian fight continues. The Hamiltonian's joined up with the Left in the first decade of the 20th Century.

[mojito]

Of those two great fonts of liberal faith - the NYT and the WaPo - at least the WaPo is big enough to allow real conservatives, like Charles Krauthammer, regular space on the editorial page.

The Times is so craven that only dainty, Ivy League eunuchs like Brooks and Ross Douthat are even allowed to broach a hint of dissension from the great unanimous chorus of truth.