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'General' David Brooks Calls Retreat After 3 Days on Political Battlefield
newsbusters.org - 3/6/2009
'General' David Brooks Calls Retreat After 3 Days on Political Battlefield
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"General" David Brooks, the very compliant house conservative of the New York Times, after just three days of bravely volunteering to lead a mighty "moderate" army against the "ideological outrages" of the Barack Obama administration, has now called a hasty retreat ...
Brooks: Boehner’s spending freeze would be ‘insane,’ GOP is ‘stuck with Reagan.’
thinkprogress.org - 3/8/2009
Brooks: Boehner’s spending freeze would be ‘insane,’ GOP is ‘stuck with Reagan.’
— thinkprogress.org — This morning on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist David Brooks addressed House Minority Leader John Boehner’s recent... call for a “ freeze on government spending ” in response to the quickly worsening economic conditions. ... (more) Brooks: Boehner’s spending freeze would be ‘insane,’ GOP ...

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swampland.blogs.time.com - 3/3/2009
On Moderation
— swampland.blogs.time.com — 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 ... (more) On Moderation

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thedemocraticstrategist.org - 3/3/2009
The Ultimate David Brooks Column
— thedemocraticstrategist.org — David Brooks penned a column for The New York Times today that is destined to become a... classic of its type. His editors seem to think so as well, titling his essay: "A Moderate Manifesto." Its main thrust is to... (more) The Ultimate David Brooks Column

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doubleplusundead:  Geez, David Brooks Must Have Been Threatened With Exclusion At The Next Cocktail Party

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Geez, David Brooks Must Have Been Threatened With Exclusion At The Next Cocktail Party
doubleplusundead — Geez, David Brooks Must Have Been Threatened With Exclusion At The Next Cocktail Party I mean, just a day or so after admitting that he is disillusioned by Obama, he goes back to supporting him. Sure enough, he admits to meeting with several members of Team Hope And Change since the article was published. And what tune is he singing now? Fifth, the Obama folks feel they spend as much time resisting liberal ideas as enacting them. The president resisted union pressure and capped pay increases for government workers. He resisted efforts to create mandatory veterans’ health ...

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