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 ...
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Du-uh!
Very good quote applied aptly
Dear Mr. Brooks,
You are an even bigger idiot than we knew you were.
Thank you, me
Brooks is a Moron.
Cue the Denny Green line
What this creep does as regards the economy, the abortion issue; etc., does not suprise me.
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Yes he is. That's the problem.
Anybody that did ANY reading on Obama’s voting record would be able to tell he’s a Marxist, plain and simple.
On the contrary, Mr. David Brooks (aka “the apparently blind & deaf Jacka$$”), I knew who/what Mr. Barack Hussein Obama was the FIRST time I heard him speak.
What a total idiot. Anybody with a brain in his head knew he was a communist. He should say he is not who we knew he was and ignored it.
Over and over and over you were told by BO exactly what and who he was.
You CHOSE not to listen.
You can't fix STUPID!
Take your $250,000 and pay up , you MORON!
Let’s not bring religion into this, plaeas!
;^)
Dude, David Brooks is a dumb-ass.
Moderate is a socialist pretending to be conservative.
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. There is no other possible explanation.
Gee thanks for noticing now Mr feel good writer...sorry your sweet emotions of the chosen one got the best of you before he was elected and you fell head over heels in love with him like most brain dead Americans. YOU didn’t do your homework originally lazy azz. NO DO OVERS-sorry. He’s ours now butt wipe.
Yes, we all like a little pie in the sky now and then.
Huh. Maybe David Brooks and these other “moderate” reporters and columnists will now see the value in vetting and investigating every politician who appears. Anyone who even scratched the surface of the Messiah would have seen the radical socialist.
Oh well, four years of his nonsense that this country has to bear.
Thanks for being a kool-aid drinking putz David!
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