Brooks: Time to Torch the Constitution

Townhall.com ^ | December 16, 2013 | Shawn Mitchell

[Puppage]

who toil thanklessly to analyze the impact of lots of really good bills that somehow never get passed.

Define: really good bills

[Doctor 2Brains]

The CONS disappeared utterly and completely a long time ago. The enumeration was the heart, soul, essence, and core of the CONS; once it was flushed down the toilet it was all over.

[GeronL]

To explain the drought’s cause, Brooks cites Fukayama’s essay in the current issue of The American Interest, The Decay of American Institutions, which diagnoses increased polarization, too many interest groups and lobbyists, and expansive power grabs by courts that foster too much litigation, all of which have combined to shrink the influence of the executive branch.

The fact that Brooks thinks we need a more powerful government/dictator shows once and for all his charade of being a 'conservative' is over.

[brooklyn dave]

OK so we torc the Constitution —and what do we have? Oh, maybe a replacement like Mao’s little red book or Kaddafy’s little gree book might be nice. Maybe because we’e so inclusive it could be Barry’s Little Rainbow Reader —whatever, my head is spining.

[PowderMonkey]

"That would be interesting, and pleasing to deep thinkers disappointed in Congress’s failure to pass a lot of awesome new laws."

Congress has passed sufficient awesome new laws, thank you very much. I have a better idea. Keep the constitution. Send Congress home. Please.

[Darren McCarty]

A couple of damn neocons.

Screw em.

[EQAndyBuzz]

How about, shoot the lobbyists, make all political positions one and only one term and do not let any people cross between the media and government.

Seems like that will be better for all Americans.

[cripplecreek]

Its a long held progressive desire to have a group of elites making the real decisions for the bewildered herd in this case Wilsonian propagandist Walter Lippmann.

Early on Lippmann said the "bewildered herd," his way of referring to the masses, must be governed by “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality." This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats. The experts, who often are referred to as "elites," were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the "omnicompetent citizen".

[lurk]

Yes, that’s what we need, a really nice and wise and most excellent dictator who can create a grand society we all want so badly. You know, like North Korea.

[Servant of the Cross]

Nah, let’s torch David Brooks’ trousers, with the perfectly creased pant leg, instead.

[DariusBane]

Brooks sounds like a Freshmen Poli/Sci student writing an essay decrying Federalism because “they just can’t get anything done”.

Brooks is supposed to be smart?

[Slyfox]

Torch the Constitution?

I would like to see him enter the National Archives and try it.

[tet68]

a constitutional democrat.

Isn’t that some kind of absurdity?
Constitutional AND a democrat???

[livius]

Did you read the article? He wants a “strengthened executive,” even though we have the most powerful and unconstitutional executive in our history.

[R_Kangel]

..... The term "Conservative" has been redefined by the collaborators with this administration. "Conservative" now means RINO/Moderate. What was once thought of and termed as "Conservative" is now called by the derogatory terms "Tea-bagger/Tea Party."

[turducken]

Don't forget, this Bolshevik is the guy who shows up on panel discussions on PBS and NBC to present the conservative point of view.

That's how they move the needle on the center of the debate - have a man with the political views of Karl Marx pretend to be the conservative in the discussion

[Gen.Blather]

Anybody who thinks they would be a benign dictator would end with bodies piled in ditches. There’s no such thing. That’s why we have co-equal branches. (Or, had before Obama.)

[Rock N Jones]

“who toil thanklessly to analyze the impact of lots of really good bills that somehow never get passed.”

How does one ignore Obamacare! No one thanklessly toiled to read it but it somehow got passed just to see what was in it and it inflicted an incredible disaster that has pissed off over half the country! My question is a simple one, has the government and it’s media dupes gone nuts?

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is the kind of freeloader crap you get when you stop teaching what it means to be an American in our schools. Bass turds like Brooks would do anything to get rid of the Second Amendment. Even torch the U.S. Constitution. Deport the bass turd to Pyong Yang.