David Brooks: What America needs now is a stronger presidency with “unified authority”

Hot Air ^ | 1:54 pm on December 13, 2013 | by Allahpundit

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Besides Ross Douthat, is there anyone left on the New York Times op-ed page who doesn’t support benign dictatorship in the name of reducing congressional gridlock? Brooks evidently does. Tom Friedman, who’s been drooling on himself for years over China’s can-do model of government, certainly does. I don’t know if Timothy Egan’s ever squarely addressed the issue but a guy who thinks O’s big problem is that his speeches aren’t flowery enough must be open to persuasion.

[x]

So how do you energize the executive? It’s a good idea to be tolerant of executive branch power grabs ...

Um ... okay ...

[KarlInOhio]

We can call it the Enabling Act of 1933 2013.

[SpaceBar]

Liberalism once again proves itself to be a surprisingly simple and fool-proof indicator of mental illness.

[detective]

“This is a good moment to advocate greater executive branch power because we’ve just seen a monumental example of executive branch incompetence”

That is like saying because a person is sick and fighting cancer what he needs are more powerful cancer cells.

[SkyDancer]

Again, a Demopublican.

[Old North State]

If there is one thing History has taught us, it is that power corrupts. This inherent human problem is only exacerbated when a group of know-it-all elitists are the ones deciding who gets what power. History did not begin with FDR and it will not end with Obama. The US was wisely started with a desire for a limited government condign to the perpetuation of a nation of free men. We could have thrown it away for a thousand different reasons in the last 200 years, but we didn't. There is no reason to do so now.

[GeronL]

he is supposedly their house conservative

which is he is not

[GeronL]

Maybe he thinks being President of the federal government is not enough, he wants him in charge of everything?

[ealgeone]

See North Korea, China, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezula.

[reg45]

Führerprinzip

[ZOOKER]

Well, at least the trains will run on time (to the Gulag).

[Mr. Jeeves]

King George III wanted no more than that. Brooks wishes we had listed to the wise, old gentleman - and stopped those Tea Party Radicals in their tracks. :)

[Vigilanteman]

At least Hitler provided his adoring crowds with better music.

[Vince Ferrer]

Why not, it works so well in Venezuela.

[SaxxonWoods]

No David, what the country needs now is a stronger President who knows how to work within our system to get the govt off people’s backs so they can produce as they always do when given the chance!

[mulligan]

What the nation needs is a much smaller government that understands it contributes nothing; is a parasite and/or leach that just steals money from its working citizens and businesses and gives it to freeloaders, with politicians being the biggest group of freeloaders.

[KC_Lion]

He is the poster boy for the Uniparty Janey.

[ArmyTeach]

Either that, his model is that of a third world dictatorship. You give away your freedom with that much power residing unchecked in the executive branch, a magnet for dictators.

[SkyDancer]

Every time I see him he’s drooling all over himself trying to agree with turkey neck.

[LibLieSlayer]

We need retroactive birth control for david and his ilk.