washingtonmonthly.com - 3/8/2009
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DAVID BROOKS GETS SHRILL.... Just yesterday I argued 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...
thinkprogress.org - 3/8/2009
swampland.blogs.time.com - 3/3/2009
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David Brooks writes today as a moderate-conservative anguished
by Barack Obama's budget. I've known David for almost...
twenty years now. We've had many wonderful conversations, publicly and privately, over those years, and I value the quality of his ...
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Deep Thoughts From David Brooks
Newshoggers.com —
... 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. That is insane. But they are thinking the way they thought in 1982, if we can only think that way again, that is just insane.
As Steve Benen points out they may want to go back to 1982 but they don't even remember ...
Had enough?
The Reaction —
... As Steve Benen points out, even then, the Republicans who are venerating Mr. Reagan aren't remembering that he raised taxes several times during his administration. But when you're blinded by the rosy visions of that mythical shining city on the hill, you forget little things like that. ...
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