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Left wing writers/columnists/commentators have “off-the-record” lunch with Obama

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Via Fishbowl DC : Politico reports that CNN’s David Gergen, WaPo’s Chris Cillizza, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker, Politico’s Mike Allen, NPR/Fox’s Mara Liasson, TPM’s Josh Marshall and ...

Sense of Events found this 2 hours ago on sistertoldjah.com

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Embracing One’s Meandering Cat

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:41:04 +0000

I initially wasn’t going to bother responding to David Brooks ‘ column today–until I read Pete Abel’ s response. Brooks, perhaps thinking being a New York Times columnist gives him the authority, presumes to understand the thoughts of all independents. In the end he ...

rchusid posted 21 hours ago from liberalvaluesblog.com

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Brooks: Independents are Meandering Cats

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:41:04 +0000

The money line from Mr. Brooks’ column today: Independents are herds of cats who find out what they think through a meandering process of discovery. While that’s probably not fair to say about all independent voters, it’s a shockingly accurate description of the ...

Liberal Values found this 21 hours ago on themoderatevoice.com

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Is David Brooks Punking Me?

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:34:00 +0000

So yesterday I posted an item complaining about the line of argument that attributes Tuesday's election results to the fact that Democrats had strayed too far from the center, had done too much to quickly, were expanding government too far, etc., etc. I argued that it was much ...

The Reaction found this 17 hours ago on tnr.com

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Conservatism Didn't Lose in NY-23

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:25:02 +0000

RUSH: These are my thoughts on New York 23. In the first place I'll have to double-check this but I'm reasonably sure that this was the highest percentage of the vote ever won on the Conservative Party line by a House or Senate candidate. I think Hoffman had a higher percentage of the vote than ...

The New Republic blogs found this 2 days ago on rushlimbaugh.com

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Has SMS and the Internet Ruined Love?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:25:07 +0000

David Brooks says yes : It also seems to encourage an atmosphere of general disenchantment. Across the centuries the moral systems from medieval chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way . They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within ...

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DISPUTATIONS: What If Obama Didn’t Need 60 Votes?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Richard Yeselson is a research coordinator for the labor federation, Change to Win. The opinions he expresses are his own. read more

Ezra Klein found this 8 days ago on tnr.com

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David Brooks and Mark Shields Agree Again on PBS: Cheney, Limbaugh and Beck Wreck GOP

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:55:56 +0000

The taxpayer-funded PBS sandbox knows how to keep looking down their nose at their competitors in conservative talk radio and TV. Once again, on Friday night’s NewsHour , the supposedly opposing duo of Mark Shields and David Brooks offered their shared revulsion of any Republican spokesman to ...

Think Progress found this 12 days ago on newsbusters.org

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Mad Men Sunday: The Brooks Brothers suit

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:30:31 +0000

Last week Betty found out she’s really married to a Dick rather than a Don, but even then everybody looked mahveloss. Surprisingly, it took three seasons for Brooks Brothers to come up with this, Suit up like a ’60s Mad Man , limited edition of 250 suits, available until Nov. ...

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Arthur C. Brooks: Why Government Health Care Keeps Falling in the Polls

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:10:03 +0000

ARTHUR C. BROOKS Regardless of how President Barack Obama's health-care agenda plays out in Congress, it has not been a success in public opinion. Opposition to ObamaCare has risen all year. According to the Gallup polling organization, the percentage of Americans who believe the cost of health ...

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Did David Brooks Tell the Full Story About Reagan's Neshoba County Fair Visit?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:28:04 +0000

11-12-07 Did David Brooks Tell the Full Story About Reagan's Neshoba County Fair Visit? By Joseph Crespino Mr. Crespino is the author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007). He teaches American history at Emory University. ...

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Selective Deficit Disorder by David Sirota on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:15:00 +0000

Watching the health care debate unfold these days is a little like watching scenes from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" the ones showing a collage of strung-out, deranged or otherwise incapacitated patients rotting away in a squalid psychiatric ward. As the insurance industry's Nurse Ratched ...

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BREAKING: NY-23 race - Dede Scozzafava quits [Darleen Click]

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:08:39 +0000

via Michelle Malkin , Scozzafava suspends campaign Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional seat, leaving Democratic nominee Bill Owens and Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in the … [ visit site ...

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Here He Goes Again

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:41:10 +0000

Last year here I criticized George Packer, an enlightened denizen of the Chattering Classes Zoo, for trying to rehabilitate David Brooks, an ingratiating neo-con who's as doomed as any other charming, brilliant vampire to suck the blood of the American republic while thinking he's in love. ...

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