Posted on 03/24/2017 9:33:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Legislation can be crafted bottom up or top down. In bottom up you ask, What problems do voters have and how can they be addressed. In top down, you ask, What problems do elite politicians have and how can they be addressed?
The House Republican health care bill is a pure top-down document. It was not molded to the actual health care needs of regular voters. It does not have support from actual American voters or much interest in those voters. It was written by elites to serve the needs of elites. Donald Trump vowed to drain the swamp, but this bill is pure swamp.
It became clear as the legislative process rushed forward that there was no overarching vision in this legislation.
If we’re going to have the rough edges of a populist revolt, you’d think that at least somebody would be interested in listening to the people. But with this bill the Republican leadership sets an all-time new land speed record for forgetting where you came from.
The core Republican problem is this: The Republicans can’t run policy-making from the White House because they have a marketing guy in charge of the factory. But they can’t run policy from Capitol Hill because it’s visionless and internally divided. So the Republicans have the politics driving the substance, not the other way around. The new elite is worse than the old elite - and certainly more vapid.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What a bunch of cr@p. Trump is the outsider and that is the problem with the Washington elite. They cannot have an outsider running things. Trump is upsetting their applecart.
NPR has the audacity to call Brooks a Conservative.
Drivel from the left
This is Ryan’s top-down bill.
Trump should not have embraced it.
This is the Uniparty eunuchs trying to preserve the power that Obamacare gives Fredzilla, it is not even close to repeal.
NYT = All The News That’s Fit To Fake
Brooks should just get a job as Obama’s valet, so he can help maintain that crease in his pants he admires so much.
They hated/dismissed/denigrated Reagan and all his friends too because he/they were from California.
For those who like to actually read the article, the notable aspect is that Brooks actually got one right.
Not that I’ll give him much credit - it’s a super obvious thing. Just like its predecessor, this bill is interests of big campaign donors, not that of we the people.
“I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging,” Brooks recently told me, “but usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don’t know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me.”
That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks’s mind. “I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama’s The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was “Run, Barack, Run.”…
“Obama sees himself as a Burkean,” Brooks says. “He sees his view of the world as a view that understands complexity and the organic nature of change.” Moreover, after the Bush years, Brooks seems relieved to have an intellectual in the White House again. “I divide people into people who talk like us and who don’t talk like us,” he explains. “Of recent presidents, Clinton could sort of talk like us, but Obama is definitely–you could see him as a New Republic writer. He can do the jurisprudence, he can do the political philosophy, and he can do the politics. I think he’s more talented than anyone in my lifetime. I mean, he is pretty dazzling when he walks into a room.
Pajama boy’s dad, David Brooks, needs a good cry because, because... Trump!
This is hilarious! The NYT calling someone else “elite” as a pejorative term!
I still do not see why Republicans won’t vote for this? They pass it in the house and it goes to the senate who then need to debate this. Once they pass it doesn’t it go to conference so they can put a single bill before the President?
At that point the President can say it sucks and they need to fix it before he signs it. Frankly, if Republicans are worrying about what their constituents are going to say prior to this getting to the President’s desk, then they probably resign and find something else to do. After all, it will be the President who gives them cover in 2018.
Hey David Brooks, go re-iron the crease in Hussein’s pant leg. Needs more crispness.
What a maroon.
1. politicials are stupid. seriously stupid. intelligence is an exception. If you ever had gone to DC and met enough of them, you would be shocked at how low their iq power goes.
2. The reality is we have purists in the peanut gallery who want laws passed as pure as the driven snow and carried to the president’s desk on the wings of angels. In the real world laws are made by compromise (ben franklin) you NEVER get all you want. Incrimentalism is the procedure of DC. It is the difference between being soon forgotten political roadkill and driving over the bodies of roadkill.
3. those that deny political reality might as well be demanding DC pass laws promising free unicorns.
And of course we should believe everything this scumbag Brooks has to say, right?
ROTFL! David Brooks! Oh Nooooooo!
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