thedemocraticstrategist.org - 3/3/2009
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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...
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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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Mushy, meaningless moderation
Political Animal —
... it into an influential force. It is, in other words, time for moderation for moderation's sake. There's precious little in Brooks' "manifesto" about problem solving, or even criticism of the president's policy agenda. The NYT columnist simply wants to go slow for the sake of going slow, pursuing incremental changes for the same of incrementalism. It's not so much a philosophy or approach to governing, so much as it's a desire to drive with one foot on the brake. Ed Kilgore, who has a terrific response , put it this way: "The 'moderation' Brooks is championing seems to ...
Moderation for moderation’s sake
Crooked Timber —
David Brooks has been getting a lot of flak for this column (which is a follow up from this one a week earlier).
We [moderates] sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. … But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. … a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor … an agenda that is unexceptional in its parts but that, when taken as a whole, represents a ...
New York Times Crashed-and-Burned Watch (Worst David Brooks Column Ever Edition)
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Democratic Strategist: Brooks is off to the races, providing a lurid spin on specific Obama proposals that are apparently "unexceptional" in themselves, but are somehow terrifyingly radical when attempted in combination. Consider his treatment of the Obama tax proposals which, as I am sure he knows, are basically designed to restore the structure of federal income tax rates as they existed prior to 2001. ...
The Moderate Road to Hell
Comments from Left Field —
... the piece. It does contain some sweeping claims about American traditions that are being trampled by this proposed budget – but all these traditions are vaguely described, and have historically accommodated greater deviations from the purported true path than are being proposed here. So if looked at closely, it really amounts to little more than a statement that the status quo should be respected because it is the status quo.
Noted socialist left-wing commentator Ed Kilgore:
David Brooks is not a stupid man. He knows that progressives ...
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