The term "useful idiot" comes to mind.
Posted on 03/03/2009 5:02:37 AM PST by publius1
You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs.
But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once.
So programs are piled on top of each other and we wind up with a gargantuan $3.6 trillion budget. We end up with deficits that, when considered realistically, are $1 trillion a year and stretch as far as the eye can see. We end up with an agenda that is unexceptional in its parts but that, when taken as a whole, represents a social-engineering experiment that is entirely new.
U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment. Yet the Obama budget is predicated on a class divide. The president issued a read-my-lips pledge that no new burdens will fall on 95 percent of the American people. All the costs will be borne by the rich and all benefits redistributed downward....
The U.S. has traditionally had a relatively limited central government. But federal spending as a share of G.D.P. is zooming from its modern norm of 20 percent to an unacknowledged level somewhere far beyond.
Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Grow a pair and stop with the "Obama isn't who he said he was, even though he's so wonderfully inspiring and has a marvelous character" crap, already. If you really think he's a destructive force, freakin have the stones to say "The conservatives were right" and don't be so damned mealymouthed.
I mean he’s damaged any reputation he had with anyone, ever.
Just a jump to the left!
Let's just introduce an admonition into the general wisdom that states that any 1st term Senator that decides he is important enough to now run for President is someone that we should be very wary of.
John Edwards, Barack Obama, or anyone who barely elected to one office suddenly starts running for the next ... beware ... their ego, their own sense of self importance and entitlement makes them dangerous and not trustworthy.
How hard is it to know that?
-PJ
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
It was no mistake, not a case of blindness, of misconstrual of motives. It was a sellout. Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, sellouts. "Approved" conservatives. Lapdogs. This sort of garbage is nothing more than a tactical move to get back on the journalistic gravy train, and it will work nicely. But it isn't fooling anyone.
“He’s not who I thought he was either. I thought he was a radical Marxist prior to the election. turns out he’s far worse...”
I’m in this camp!
[If David Brooks didn’t know what Obama stood for all his political life, then he (Brooks) is too stupid to have a regular column in a major publication.]
Fortunately, the NYT is well on it’s way to being a minor publication.
The term "useful idiot" comes to mind.
So Ding Dong has turned out to be a pig in a poke, eh David? Not the brightest bulb in the lamp, are ya?
Anyone who thought Hussein was a moderate had their head up their a$$.
Who ever wrote this lost me on this paragraph. If he is trashing Obama he is going about it the wrong way. Obviously a liberal who wants to see his agendas passed but not all of Bozo's. Anyone who wants the government to meddle in our lives, even a little(and there is no such thing as a little meddling), is a socialist and no friend of mine. Education, energy inovation, health reform and he admires these programs? Enough said.
Brooks should have spent more time READING what Obama said instead of LISTENING to what he said.
Very good!
"You have to use power while it corrupts you" indeed.
Bambi was corrupt long before he got near power, apparently.
Berean, consider yourself *highly* commended.
Cheers!
maybe you are only ‘moderately’ pregnant by this new guy you are dating Mr. Brooks.
“Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.”
And true conservatives who called Obama a socialist and neo-Marxist are muttering bitterly ...
WE TOLD YOU SO!
ROFL.
Here’s another one:
Dear Mr Brooks,
SUCKER.
- A Conservative Who Had Obama’s Number From Day One
Let me add for the other stupid moderates:
Dear Investor-class-upper-middle-class-Obama voter,
How’s that vote for the mocha Marxist working out for your pocketbook?
“I remember Newt insisting to Hannity that Obama will govern from the center. Hannity, to his credit, wasn’t buying it. Now I see Newt has changed his tone “
A LOT of wishful thinking from the inside-the-beltway folks after the election and before Jan 20th.
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