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The Mother of All No-Brainers (David Brooks Massive Barf Alert)
New York Times ^
| July 4, 2011
| David Brooks
Posted on 07/05/2011 5:09:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Liz
Is "neocons are sucking up bigtime b/c Repub party regulars kicked them out on their filthy behinds" too strong an observation?Works for me. ;-)
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posted on
07/05/2011 1:42:48 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Sapere Aude!" --Immanuel Kant)
To: calcowgirl
Phew—that’s a relief (/snix).
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posted on
07/05/2011 1:54:34 PM PDT
by
Liz
( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
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posted on
07/05/2011 2:00:11 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Sapere Aude!" --Immanuel Kant)
To: Onelifetogive
“OLTG volunteers! Please pick me!!! Over here! Yoohoo!!!!! Hello! “
Please, I’m talking about our ELITE bosses at the top of the Republican Party.
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posted on
07/05/2011 4:31:01 PM PDT
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: PJ-Comix
Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative. Brooks misunderstands. His "practical, governing alternative" has been proven to be anything but a "practical, governing alternative." Indeed, it is this "practical, governing alternative" that is purely responsible for the fiscal mess we are in.
If the cycle of tax and spend is not broken, if Brooks' "practical, governing alternative" is not defeated, we will have no future.
Brooks' World of Washington does not understand, nor care, what the voters want and are intent upon getting.
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posted on
07/05/2011 4:41:39 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
To: DManA
Problem is we are dealing with a cult who worships taxes. They will sacrifice anything, even our children for another 5% in taxes. No, it is not taxes that Brooks and his ilk worship.
It is government. The bigger, the better. And taxes are its lifeblood.
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posted on
07/05/2011 4:47:23 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
To: Happy Rain
David Brooks is the contemporary Whittaker Chambers. He is anti-Leftist but not anti-Left. He believes in his soul the moral and secular supremacy of socialist dogma as he “fights” it's promulgation. Both Chambers and Brooks would say: “I love communism—it's those damn communists I can't stand.”
Is that really what Chambers would have said?
It looks to me like Chambers hated communism (after he left it behind) and thought it evil but feared that communism would win anyway because the world is an evil place.
Like a lot of anti-Communists of his generation Whittaker Chambers tolerated a role for government that libertarian purists would condemn.
That wasn't because he loved communism. It was because he thought laissez-faire would encourage Communist movements.
He might have been wrong (was he really, though?), but Chambers certainly did not believe communism was morally superior to Christianity.
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