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Brooks: Dems ‘Were Right to Try to Be FDR’
Breitbart ^ | 12/18/2021 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 12/18/2021 4:47:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats “were right to try to be FDR, try to do something big” with the Build Back Better reconciliation bill.

Brooks said that if the new inflation numbers in January show an increase in inflation, that will make passing the bill far more difficult. “Because Joe Manchin’s really concerned about inflation and federal spending boosting that. I think — in retrospect, I think they were right to try to be FDR, try to do something big, there are a lot of problems in this country, and try to address them.”

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Elon Musk seems to know the electric car business well.

Other carmakers are following Tesla’s progress.

Electric cars are selling well and the market doesn’t need Biden’s subsidies and shouldn’t get them.


21 posted on 12/18/2021 5:32:05 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...there are a lot of problems in this country...”

With the NYT near the top of the list......


22 posted on 12/18/2021 5:32:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Two days after Obama’s second autobiography, ‘The Audacity of Hope’, hit bookstores, Brooks published a column in The New York Times, titled ‘Run, Barack, Run’, urging the Chicago politician to run for president.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(commentator)

“In regard to the 2016 election, Brooks spoke in support of Hillary Clinton, applauding her ability to be ‘competent’ and ‘normal’ in comparison to her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump.”

“As early as 2003, Brooks wrote favorably of same-sex marriage, pointing out that marriage is a traditional conservative value.”

The guy is as conservative as my leftist Democratic neighbors.

As for Brooks, I suspect this old saying applies:
“A conservative just a liberal who has been mugged.”


23 posted on 12/18/2021 5:47:02 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Night Hides Not

It was in the book, The Forgotten Man, by Amity Schlaes. It’s a biography of the Great Depression.

Great book on the calamity that was the New Deal.


24 posted on 12/18/2021 5:47:17 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FDR who destroyed the American economy for twelve years.


25 posted on 12/18/2021 7:06:49 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They did something even bigger than FDR.

With FDR they, along with complicit media, helped cover up the physically handicapped.....today they help cover for the mentally handicapped.

26 posted on 12/18/2021 7:08:36 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

President Poopy is more like LBJ but with a truckload of senility added.
LBJ was famous for the “do what I tell you or I will break your legs” attitude.
Which was also why he decided not to run for reelection.
Race riots, high crime, poor job market all doomed any chance of a democrat winning.


27 posted on 12/18/2021 7:35:15 PM PST by Zathras
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now that passage hinges on the rate inflation, what are the odds that it will be fudged to facilitate passage of the bill?


28 posted on 12/18/2021 9:16:27 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fake conservative. Always was.


29 posted on 12/18/2021 9:24:10 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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