David Brooks and Rush Limbaugh

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 3/3/09 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

A few days ago I published a column by David Brooks, the NY Times token conservative (only the Times would consider Brooks a real conservative) in which he basically lamented that Obama and his people really couldn’t achieve what they have set out to achieve – and we would all be the worse for their failures. In his next column, reprinted below, he goes much farther – becoming distraught because he has perceived that Obama basically lied to the American people in order to fool them into thinking that he was a moderate.

Where were you, Mr. Brooks during the presidential campaign? How many times was it pointed out that Obama’s voting record was 100% extreme left? How many times was it pointed out that he changed his position on almost everything, and threw people off his bus whenever they seemed to have become a liability?

[browardchad]

The U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment. Yet the Obama budget is predicated on a class divide. The president issued a read-my-lips pledge that no new burdens will fall on 95 percent of the American people. All the costs will be borne by the rich and all benefits redistributed downward.

Mystery solved. Brooks finally sees his wallet seriously threatened, so he wanders off the reservation a bit.

He'll be back, though.

[SoFloFreeper]

Brooks must be fast approaching the Arnold S. school; once a strong conservative at least fiscally, Arnie ‘n Dave have apparently fallen in love with the idea that liberalism is the fashion in their social circles.

Sad, really.