[PJ-Comix]

General Brooks has a chart and you don't. Jealous? Read entire article for details.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[GQuagmire]

"On Tuesday, I wrote that the Obama budget is a liberal, big government document that should make moderates nervous. The column generated a large positive response from moderate Obama supporters who are anxious about where the administration is headed. It was not so popular inside the White House. Within a day, I had conversations with four senior members of the administration and in the interest of fairness, I thought I’d share their arguments with you today."


Waaaaaahhhhh.. I don't want to be on the enemies list with Limbaugh,Santelli etc. Waaaaaaaahh!!

[jimbo123]

A bloodletting is on the horizon for the NY Times. There will be staff cuts of 25%-30% by May and dissenters like Brooks will be the first to get the axe by the gay mafia running the Slimes.

[LeavingNewYork]

Brooks is irrelevant. He is a good barometer for ferreting out RINOs.

[dennisw]

This guy is like a chatty little school girl I suppose New Yorkers like his inane material

[vg0va3]

That is great. If someone will just sit down and explain their illogical agenda in a simple “pragmatic” tone, Mr. Brooks will forsake his own ideas.

He doesn't care about substance. Only his desire to be above the fray created by the common man. So much for a spine.

[Tom_Busch]

Loathesome little weasel.

[mkjessup]

Brooks is nothing but a token alleged 'conservative' whose purpose is to lend legitimacy to the New York Slimes, put him in a skirt and he could be Debra Saunders of the soon to be extinct San Francrisco Chronicle, who dutifully served as their token conservative for many years.

The only reason any REAL conservative would have for reading the NYT is to know what America's enemies are up to.

[angkor]

Those who read the Brooks column and articles of a few days ago knew where this was headed.

Brooks - forever the tool of the NY Slimes and of PBS - predictably has pleaded mea culpa for his fleeting, halfhearted, and pathetic attempt to go off the reservation.

But he knows who writes his $6,000/week paycheck and so it was predictable that he'd come back to firm Democrat ground at the earliest opportunity.

Here's a great blog read about the increasingly pathetic Brooks:

"It is possible to argue that Brooks never should have been hired for that job in the first place. He is the Chauncey Gardner of American journalism, a man elevated by circumstance to a position beyond his aptitude or capacity."

[gridlock]

Gawd! This is just embarrassing!

[HoosierHawk]

In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders.

Gullible little one, isn't he?

[dinoparty]

Brooks is the kind of guy you meet at a party, and he can’t help but drop names of famous people he knows. He’s more concerned about appearing important than getting it right.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The White House folks didn’t say this, but I got the impression they’d be willing to raise taxes on the bottom 95 percent of earners as part of an overall package.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LibLieSlayer]

Is this brooks boy one of those “gay” Generals like weasley clark?

LLS

[metesky]

Last paragraph:

Nonetheless, the White House made a case that was sophisticated and fact-based. These people know how to lead a discussion and set a tone of friendly cooperation. I’m more optimistic that if Senate moderates can get their act together and come up with their own proactive plan, they can help shape a budget that allays their anxieties while meeting the president’s goals.

Smarmy intellectuals and overthinkers like Brooks continually get the Delphi treatment and never know it.

[popdonnelly]

Instead of worrying about what his editors think, Brooks should worry about where his next job will be when the Times finally collapses.

[sitetest]

David Brooks is an intellectual fraud.

[Common Sense 101]

All of the conviction and principles of a Belt Way pansy.

[subterfuge]

“General Brooks” just through himself under the bus.

[pappyone]

You two have violated the basic tenant of FReep, namely disagreeing with the “perceived wisdom” of a thread.