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Brain Melt Moment: Brooks Attacks Boehner
Hoffmania! —
... The implosion continues. This morning, David Brooks called the GOP's spending freeze "insane." ...
Quote of the Day: David Brooks on Rush Limbaugh and the GOP
The Reaction —
... not to like about David Brooks, including his facile sociological commentary (praise be to the exurbs, to Patio Man and Realtor Mom) and his various and ever-so-convenient about-turns over the years (shifting with the CW, suiting his views to the audience, etc.), but, compared to the wackos who currently head up the GOP and the conservative movement -- Limbaugh, Steele, McConnell, Boehner, Malkin, Coulter, etc. -- he's a model of good sense and decency. Here he is, or was, on ABC's This Week this morning: ...
David Brooks gets shrill
Political Animal —
... that respectable figures of the political establishment are reluctant to call obvious stupidity "stupid," especially when it comes to truly painful ideas like a spending freeze in the midst of the economic crisis. To his credit, the NYT 's David Brooks said on ABC's "This Week" today what many are of his colleagues have been unwilling to say. Describing Republican leaders, Brooks said, "The problem with them and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan. They are stuck with the idea that government is always the problem. A ...
Deep Thoughts From David Brooks
Newshoggers.com —
... Commentary By Ron Beasley
Below I bought you today's Deep Thoughts from Tom Friedman. Once again from the amazing grasp of the obvious department I bring deep thoughts from David Brooks:
BROOKS: The problem with them and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan. They are stuck with the idea that government is always the problem. A lot of Republicans up in Capitol Hill right now are calling for a spending freeze in a middle of a recession/depression. ...
"Insane"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Brooks on Boehner. It isn't 1981.
Omnibus Spending Bill Showcases Republican Hypocrisy-- Take David Diapers Vitter
DownWithTyranny! —
... Stalwarts of the Grand Obstructionist Party were celebrating that 158 Republicans in the House (all but 16 of them) voted against the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, defeat of which would have shut down the government Friday night. And they're really excited that the Senate obstructionists have it tied up with a de facto filibuster. In both Houses the right-wing drama queens are shedding crocodile tears that the bill is too laden with pork for them to burden their beloved constituents with. As Yesterday's Hill pointed out, even the most bitter opponents-- they ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — NOT IMPRESSED The left blogosphere is beginning to shower David Brooks with praise for saying this: The problem with [Republicans in Congress] and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan. They are stuck with the idea that government is always the problem. A lot of Republicans up in Capitol Hill right now are calling for a spending freeze in a middle of a recession/depression. That is insane. But they are thinking the way they thought in 1982, if we can only think that way again, that is just ...
Does WaPo Know There Is A Depression Going On?
TalkLeft —
GOP House leader John Boehner has been rightly ridiculed for his absurd spending freeze plan in the throes of a economic depression. Boehner of course offered this plan as a solution to the coming depression. The WaPo Editorial Board wrings its hands over "excessive spending" without even referencing the current economic situation: More noteworthy is the significant jump in domestic spending that is built into the annual baseline. Critics of the spending package say that the increase is 8 percent over last year's levels; for complicated ...
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
... manufactured controversy? The one in which Obama is somehow stupid because he uses a teleprompter? Yeah, only idiots use teleprompters. The Census won't count gay Americans because it's a "lifestyle" choice. What a horrible nightmare. And what a weird conservative reaction to it. Remember how Obama "overreached" by carrying out his campaign promises? Conservative columnist David Brooks is not among the 16 percent of Americans who have a favorable opinion of House GOP leader ...
Had enough?
The Reaction —
By Mustang Bobby Apparently the rush to crown Rush Limbaugh as the de facto head of the Republican party and stick with the plan of canonizing Reaganomics is getting to be too much for some Republicans. As Michael noted yesterday, David Brooks on ABC's This Week labeled the Republicans in the House as "insane" for trying do just that. The problem with them and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan. They are stuck with the idea that government is always the ...
Mark Nickolas: GOP Political Darwinism: Who's Adapting and Who's Going Extinct?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... On Sunday, conservative columnist David Brooks showed us why is one of the few on the right who seems to have a grasp of the main problems currently plaguing the Republican Party: ...
Grassley Proposes Insane Three Year Spending Freeze
Wonk Room —
... dramatic effect. “Over a period of time, there’s something predictable about a freeze, and over a period of time it makes a big difference…The multiplier effect of freezing something for three years is very dramatic.”
As Paul Krugman wrote regarding a spending freeze, “that’s not a retrogression to Herbert Hoover; even Hoover knew better than that.” David Brooks agreed, calling such a move “insane.”
A freeze would have the “dramatic effect” of providing ...
Chuck Grassley Embraces “Insane” Spending Freeze Proposal
Matthew Yglesias —
... board the bandwagon calling for a three-year “spending freeze”, the sort of proposal I’m used to hearing from know-nothings like Jim DeMint or John McCain, folks with no understanding of or interest in, policy questions. Pat Garofalo reminds us that “A freeze would have the ‘dramatic effect’ of providing dangerous anti-stimulus at the precise moment when stimulus is needed most.” David Brooks has rightly termed this effort “insane”.
On the merits, it makes no sense whatsoever to worry about ...
GOP Budget Plan Similar To McCain Plan, But Worse
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , "That's not a retrogression to Herbert Hoover; even Hoover knew better than that." But, for balance, I'll include the opinion of David Brooks, who merely thought the idea was "insane." ...
GOP Budget Plan Similar To McCain Plan, But Worse
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... , "That's not a retrogression to Herbert Hoover; even Hoover knew better than that." But, for balance, I'll include the opinion of David Brooks, who merely thought the idea was "insane." ...
Bob Cesca: Insane Republicans Reveal An Insane Budget Plan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Not only does the Republican plan freeze discretionary spending for five years in the midst of a recession which, by most accounts and ...
