Not fit to govern? David Brooks seems to forget that for the FIRST TIME in history, the Democrats have failed to offer a budget for two years in a row.
Then again, independent voters ARE morons.
The folks willing to compromise are taking a big risk, if you ask me. Republicans are foolish is they help the Democrats win another round.
Brooks seems to think that ‘compromise’ is the beginning and ending of this discussion.
I’m getting more and more of a sense from folks I know who aren’t as into politics as I am that this isn’t true. To many more people than Brooks knows, stopping this madness is the real key to showing which party is fit to lead.
Like Newt, Brooks has been around too long.
The members of this movement do not accept the legitimacy of scholars and intellectual authorities.
So it’s the obvious, “no brainer” compromise, when spending goes from 19% of the budget to 38% in a few years, to RAISE TAXES as well as to cut spending? Not just to take the darn spending back to where it was??
So the trade is a few hundred million in ‘revenue increases’ in exchange for lowering the future debt by 3 to 4 trillion?
If so, it seems to me that the DEMS should forgo the symbolic ‘revenue increases’ and PROVE TO THE WORLD that they are the responsible party and are willing to make the hard choices.
Of course all this is fake. Bush-41 was promised loads of spending cuts, also, in exchange for the tax increases that cost him his job. Did those cuts come? They did, 4 years later, but only after the Republicans owned Congress.
These Republicans don’t seem to be that stupid, but with this piece by David Brooks, they may not be able to hold out much more (who wants to be attacked in the NYTs).
Democrats are dragging the country down into the raging volcano. According to Brooks, Republicans should stop resisting the Dems efforts and agree to let the Dems drag us closer to the rim. Just to show we can compromise. What a load.
Problem is we are dealing with a cult who worships taxes. They will sacrifice anything, even our children for another 5% in taxes.
Is Brooks still playing footsie and leg groping with men under the table at his A-list Manhattan dinner parties?
Isn’t this guy David Brooks the guy who plays the “conservative” columnist for the NY Times after Saphire left? Or is that David Frum? David Brock? Whatever... Read my lips: The rats cannot be trusted. And neither can David Brooks, who is here pushing his Democrat party’s scheme to convince the Republican party to commit suicide.
The leftist Trojan Horse “Republican” strikes again.
“They have agreed to a roughly 3-to-1 rate of spending cuts “
This is the same scam Tip O’Neill tricked Reagan into accepting. Reagan agreed to tax raises and Tip reneged on spending cuts.
Say NO to tax increases!
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.