A Competent Conservative (Roberts)

NY Times ^ | July 21, 2005 | DAVID BROOKS

[neverdem]

Use bugmenot.com if you don't want to register.

[aviator]

Wow!

[longun45]

This guy is govenment man all the way. We need a real conservative originalist. Mr Robers is NOT that man.

[longun45]

This guy is govenment man all the way. We need a real conservative originalist. Mr Robers is NOT that man.

[LibertarianInExile]

Getting David Brooks to back Roberts is no endorsement.

That hack is the leftist's 'conservative' poodle, in the way that Safire was for years.

[xzins]

What do you mean by "government man?"

[neverdem]

If the faux Shakespeare style doesn't annoy, this is pretty good.

[thoughtomator]

The faux Shakespeare style annoys.

[Republican Wildcat]

What I was going to say...

[FlingWingFlyer]

I've never seen a piece about a "competent Liberal." I guess there isn't any.

[Dave S]

What do you mean by "government man?"

Seems longun45 is one of those embattled outsiders to whom government is evil regardless of who runs it. People like him feel that government serves no purpose, other than to guard our borders and repair the highways. They dont believe that those who serve in high government positions at major financial cost to themselves deserve any credit for their service. Roberts gave up an income of over a million dollars a year in a major law firm to go on the Federal bench at about 100K per year. But to the old time embattled outsider he is just a government hack who is out to make the outsiders life a living hell.

[Rockitz]

NY Times Kudos? Now I'm starting to worry. Ann was right!

[SteveMcKing]

"Seems longun45 is one of those embattled outsiders to whom government is evil regardless of who runs it. People like him feel that government serves no purpose, other than to guard our borders and repair the highways. They dont believe that those who serve in high government positions at major financial cost to themselves deserve any credit for their service. ... to the old time embattled outsider he is just a government hack who is out to make the outsiders life a living hell."

Non-government is better than conservative government, or rather it is the very definition of a pure conservative administration (making the term an oxymoron - while "liberal administration" is redundant).

However since government is here to stay, I'll settle for electing conservatives to office.

[neverdem]

NY Times Kudos?

I'm not worried if it's from a Brooks or Tierney OpEd column. OpEd columns from Rich, Dowd, Krugman or Herbert, like masthead editorials from the New York Times Editorial Board, are almost always reliably dimissed 99.44 percent of the Time.

OpEd Contributors, like today's by Jeffrey Rosen, are more like ships passing in the night never to be paseed again, and may be useful for insights like the occasional Kristof or Friedman OpEd column.

N.B. Rosen has always struck me as a leftist.

[neverdem]

paseed = passed

[nopardons]

It's BROWNING, not Shakespeare. If you're going to condemn it, which you should, at least get the original author correct. LOL

The poem is "HOW DO I LOVE THEE, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS" and he quote a lot of it, but changes things a bit.

[neverdem]

It's BROWNING, not Shakespeare.

Thank you for the correction. My major was chemistry. My first degree was a B.S.

[GOPrincess]

Brooks is the NYT's token Republican, who also writes for Weekly Standard. Not to worry.

[nopardons]

My undergrad major was English. LOL

I wasn't trying to embarrass you, nor was I being petty, but such errors sort of drive me up a wall. Thanks for being so gallant and pleasant about it all.

[RoyalsFan]

People like him feel that government serves no purpose, other than to guard our borders and repair the highways.

That and the military. What else do you think they should be doing, giving welfare?