Posted on 03/06/2009 4:04:00 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Instead of worrying about what his editors think, Brooks should worry about where his next job will be when the Times finally collapses.
David Brooks is an intellectual fraud.
“In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders.”
HarHarHarDeHarHar!
No, they see themselves as opportunists who want to entrench themselves in office and institutionalize their fantasies. And they see the public as suckers.
“It was neocon drug induced nightmare.”
It’s time for Republicans to stop fighting with Republicans, and start fighting with Democrats.
You are a teacher and you cannot even read? First, abstract ideas and organizational constructs die all the time and deservedly so. They die because they represent ideas that if allowed to thrive will do real injuries to sentient human beings.
Second, the Iraq war dragged on for how many years with no one having a clue what to do to bring it to a close until finally all the old guys defended by Cheney got tossed out, Cheney's influence curtailed and Bush brought in Petraeus and Gates. Then things moved along pretty quickly.
Third, you are politically clueless if you cannot connect the dots on how Iraq lead to bankrupting the US. The Iraq war was not even at the start politically popular. So, in return for giving Bush permission to fight the war, Bush signed on to whatever irresponsible spending Congress wanted to get up to. Had Bush focused on what was really going on in the US economy, he might have cajoled Greenspan into thinking that maybe it was time for this bubble to die in 2001-2002 instead of ensuring the whole country would go bankrupt.
No. There was no plan in Iraq.
And on a final point, Obama may not be taking actions to help get us out of the current mess, but he had nothing to do with getting us into this mess. Nada. Zero. Zip. Wasn't there. Didn't do it.
I agree. But first it requires Republicans to recognize that it was there own bad ideas or lack of any at all while sitting on their fat pompous complacency that got them totally out of power in the first place. I don't think dims and liberals are the solution to our problems, but pubbies at total control during the crucial years that got us where we are.
LLS
What conservative ideas did McCain run on? I didn’t hear much...McCain being the David Brooks of the Senate.
If conservatives don’t get to run their candidates, they can’t be blamed for the GOP defeat. And the current primary system allows democrats to pick the candidates.
Someone’s cranky this AM....Who peed in your Cheerios?
Who bankrupted the US with Iraq? Spending hit about $500B at the peak...about 2/3 of the TARP program alone. That 'drug induced nightmare' also played a key role in protecting America - killing terrorists in Iraq instead of on US schools grounds. Both strategically and tactically, it has been one of the most successful wars ever fought.
“Quoting the administration’s defense of its positions is not defending those positions...”
Maybe I missed the part where Brooks then proceed to show the error of those positions. Having made the Administrations arguments, which is normally the function of every other page in the NYTs, where did he challenge them?
That is how liberals and the NYT like their Republicans. It is also why this jackass has his column at the Times. You didn't think they would actually hire a real conservative did you?
All of the conviction and principles of a Belt Way pansy.
“General Brooks” just through himself under the bus.
A couple of websites that show the continuing cost of the War in Iraq (currently exceeding $600 Billion since 2003):
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
Sorry, but in recent times, when the Republicans stood on conservative ideas, they won, and every time they tried to be Democrat Lite, they lost. I do agree that the leadership was unfortunately too complacent over the last ten years or so.
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