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

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Hunton Peck]

Back when he was writing for the Weekly Standard, Brooks was their most shallow, insubstantial, style-obsessed columnist — kind of a metrosexual male version of Peggy Noonan — which made him a perfect fit to be the NYT’s token “conservative”.

[GoCards]

WTF, GTH, and STFU!!! turd

[xp38]

The Port Authority Bus Terminal certainly has some rarefied air.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Brooks is too liberal for even The Weakly Standard’s milquetoast establishment small “r” republican tastes.

[Jack Black]

I like Krauthammer at times, but he's a neo-con too, just like David Brooks and the previous token conservative on the NY Times editorial page, his former employer, William Kristol, and arguably even his predecessor as the 'right guy' on the left page, William Saffire. And Brooks, like David Frum, the other famous neo-conservative edging back toward the Democratic party, he's also ... a Canadian.

[Servant of the Cross]

The Iowahawk Parody 'I'm Beginning to Believe This Obama Fellow Is Unequal to the Task' describes the faux 'conservatives' Brooks, Frum, Noonan and Parker perfectly.

[G Larry]

I guess those blackmail photo’s the Clinton’s dug up, haven’t outlived their usefulness.....

Does Brooks believe anybody buys either his “Republican” label or his “More Gov’t, Higher Taxes” pitch?

[Buckeye McFrog]

with that punchline I was expecting the byline to be Mel or Albert Brooks

[ridesthemiles]

Brooks needs a brain transplant.
He has lost his mind.

Don’t ever tell me again that man is Conservative!!!!!

[Hunton Peck]

Now, that’s funny, though the part near the end where he rationalizes their having been so wrong (”attuned to the latest social trends”) reminds me too much of the way RiNOs I know actually think to be funny.

[Stentor]

You owe me a shirt. I’ll be expecting Freepmail.

[Doulos1]

He has a purdy mouth.

[kevinm13]

If Brooks is Canadian, that explains a lot. A Conservative Canadian is one that is left of Harry Read. Liberals in Canada are even further left than Dems and the NDP is an unabashed party of the union worker.