[Puppage]

who toil thanklessly to analyze the impact of lots of really good bills that somehow never get passed.

Define: really good bills

[Doctor 2Brains]

The CONS disappeared utterly and completely a long time ago. The enumeration was the heart, soul, essence, and core of the CONS; once it was flushed down the toilet it was all over.

[GeronL]

To explain the drought’s cause, Brooks cites Fukayama’s essay in the current issue of The American Interest, The Decay of American Institutions, which diagnoses increased polarization, too many interest groups and lobbyists, and expansive power grabs by courts that foster too much litigation, all of which have combined to shrink the influence of the executive branch.

The fact that Brooks thinks we need a more powerful government/dictator shows once and for all his charade of being a 'conservative' is over.

[brooklyn dave]

OK so we torc the Constitution —and what do we have? Oh, maybe a replacement like Mao’s little red book or Kaddafy’s little gree book might be nice. Maybe because we’e so inclusive it could be Barry’s Little Rainbow Reader —whatever, my head is spining.

[PowderMonkey]

"That would be interesting, and pleasing to deep thinkers disappointed in Congress’s failure to pass a lot of awesome new laws."

Congress has passed sufficient awesome new laws, thank you very much. I have a better idea. Keep the constitution. Send Congress home. Please.

[Darren McCarty]

A couple of damn neocons.

Screw em.

[cripplecreek]

Its a long held progressive desire to have a group of elites making the real decisions for the bewildered herd in this case Wilsonian propagandist Walter Lippmann.

Early on Lippmann said the "bewildered herd," his way of referring to the masses, must be governed by “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality." This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats. The experts, who often are referred to as "elites," were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the "omnicompetent citizen".

[lurk]

Yes, that’s what we need, a really nice and wise and most excellent dictator who can create a grand society we all want so badly. You know, like North Korea.

[Servant of the Cross]

Nah, let’s torch David Brooks’ trousers, with the perfectly creased pant leg, instead.

[DariusBane]

Brooks sounds like a Freshmen Poli/Sci student writing an essay decrying Federalism because “they just can’t get anything done”.

Brooks is supposed to be smart?

[Slyfox]

Torch the Constitution?

I would like to see him enter the National Archives and try it.

[tet68]

a constitutional democrat.

Isn’t that some kind of absurdity?
Constitutional AND a democrat???

[R_Kangel]

..... The term "Conservative" has been redefined by the collaborators with this administration. "Conservative" now means RINO/Moderate. What was once thought of and termed as "Conservative" is now called by the derogatory terms "Tea-bagger/Tea Party."

[turducken]

Don't forget, this Bolshevik is the guy who shows up on panel discussions on PBS and NBC to present the conservative point of view.

That's how they move the needle on the center of the debate - have a man with the political views of Karl Marx pretend to be the conservative in the discussion

[Gen.Blather]

Anybody who thinks they would be a benign dictator would end with bodies piled in ditches. There’s no such thing. That’s why we have co-equal branches. (Or, had before Obama.)

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is the kind of freeloader crap you get when you stop teaching what it means to be an American in our schools. Bass turds like Brooks would do anything to get rid of the Second Amendment. Even torch the U.S. Constitution. Deport the bass turd to Pyong Yang.

[Travis McGee]

That might fly in his corner of the former USA, but it won't fly in mine.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Poofters like Davie have a different way of looking at things. They live for the moment.

[Don Corleone]

Under Obama and his Marxists the "Pax Americana that has lasted almost 100 years is now for all practical purposes DEAD. What will replace it is pure conjecture but my guess is that it will not be peaceful by any definition.

[Obadiah]

An article you will NEVER see a Leftist like Brooks write when a Republican is in office.

Brooks is a fascist hypocrite of the highest order. What Brooks really wants, and what everybody who reads this column intuitively understands, is that Brooks really wants a fascist government run by central planners made up of Democrats. He is arguing for a benevolent dictatorship because he believes it’s good for us.

Speak for yourself, you fool!