Posted on 05/09/2010 12:31:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
If he voted for TARP and Obamacare he's not a conservative at all...at best he's a RINO.
Good on ya Jim!!
Wake Up America!
Brooks is entitled to his beliefs, and he should try to accurately state his beliefs when asked (which I think he does). However, he is no conservative. How would you have to define “conservative” to include Brooks’s views. “NYT liberal” comes to mind; and if that’s the definition of “conservative,” there is no sense in having such a word and no reason to have conservatives.
I'm surprised at you, m’lady.
You are usually spot on. Not in this instance though. TARP never saves anybody from no depression. Juan Williams doesn't know what he's talking about, as usual.
Couldn't have said it better. I am scratching my head here. For Libs (however they label themselves), anything that happens that they don't like -- especially when someone, most anyone, is held accountable by those to whom they are accountable -- is (1) "unfair" and (2) an "outrage."
TARP was a scam and don’t give me that nonsense about paying the money back. With what, other bailout money? Phony ‘profits’ from cooking their books and lying about the value of their ‘assets’?
$700B down a rathole saving failed institutions so we could kick the can down the road and pretend that our zombie economy is ‘saved’?? Complete hogwash. Totally unnecessary.
If the feds were going to pony up dough for anything, it should have been to cover FDIC insurance on the failed banks and let the big banks FAIL. WTF is the FDIC even there for if not to do just that??!?!
And with the 700B down the hole, 150+ banks failed last year and another 60+ so far this year. So, $700B bought us a slow bleed instead of a clearing of the system. Woo hoo. Let’s all stare blankly at CNBC and look at the pretend ‘green shoots’!
Propping up failed businesses, whether they are car companies or banks, is a destructive distortion of the system, rewarding failure and penalizing success.
That may be the kind of crony-capitalist utopia that you and Juan Williams want to live in, but I’ll pass.
It’s a damn outrage that soft conservatives like Bennet have been allowed to continue representing deep red states. Utah should replace Hatch next. All the Red states need to clean house. We don’t want to get more government programs we don’t want mote bailouts we don’t want more spending we are damn outraged by it and rightly do! These people in power act as though the economy didn’t collasp they act as though they and their big money dinars had nothing to do with it they act as though we should applaud them fir trying to get things done that we don’t want done! David Brooks can look at this battle as a battle to claim the stays quo we are Americans and we want to reclaim our constitutional heritage and stop the train driven by senile old men and hedonistic socialists and plot a route back to greatness. We do not believe liberalism social and fiscal is inevitable we don’t believe change is good regardless of result we don’t believe America’s best days are behind us we believe they are ahead of us and we will fight to take down anyone who stands in our way in pursuit of that goal.
The howlers are going to howl as the governments get downsized (or worse). Look at Greece and watch the dominoes.
We tried it there way letting Lehman fail messy and it blew up. They don't want to admit their policy preference is unrealistic and unworkable in the real world.
On the rest of it, there is no right to office, no tenure, in a republic, and tough toenails for the former senator.
“Brooks - “he’s losing his career over that. And it’s just a damn outrage.” Career? This is the exact mindset that conservatives have been fighting. It’s not “his” seat. Bennett served at the pleasure of his constituents and no longer had their backing.”
Exactly. ‘Politician’ in the USA was not meant to be a ‘career’. And we’ve seen what doing so has got us, most of the time...Ted Kennedy, John McCain, et al. I’m conflicted over term limits, but we’ve got to try something. If the person is a good public servant he can always run for another office.
Ironic isn’t it? Short memories.......
A FINE BROMANCE
Tune: “A Fine Romance”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkoLBc-cuA&feature=related
As sung by David Brooks to Barack Obama
A fine bromance, like no other
A fine bromance, my Brooks brother
Barack and Brooks—it’s mutual admiration
Your rock-star looks are causin’ a strange sensation
A fine bromance, though you’re frazzled
A fine bromance, I’m bedazzled
I like to stare at the crease in your well-pressed pants
I’ve widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance
A fine bromance, we’re pie-chartin’
You make bromance that’s bi-partisan
You’re cooler than the clams that are down in the seaweed
You cast a glance my way and I get all wee-weed
A fine bromance, you’re my Marx guy
When we slow-dance, you make sparks fly
You make me have to cancel my “No we cant’s”
You’ve got me in a trance
This is a fine bromance
A fine bromance, with no disses
A fine bromance, Barack, this is
The “right” may be the box that a guy like I’m in
But I’m the kind that writes for the New York Times in
A fine bromance, my dear comrade
A fine bromance, like you and Rahm had
I feel a tingle running now up my pants
I’ve widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance
Yes, indeed, it’s time to stop the spending.
I have no argument with people voting Senator Bennett out of office — none whatsoever.
But when I read another article where a person claimed TARP as their sole reason for doing so, I just shook my head.
It is the people’s Senate seat. The people will determine who sits in it.
Do u really believe TARP and the bailouts of Fannie and Freddie, saved us from a depression? I think TARP guarantees a future depression much worst than anything we were facing in 2008 because it saved the corrupt politicians and corporations that caused the meltdown.
Now we’ve got the same villians operating the same schemes with a proven guarantee: that most people, including conservatives like yourself believe the government is acting properly when it gives thieves trillions of dollars it confiscates from honest hard working people.
All TARP did was delay the collapse and guarantee that it will be orders of magnitude GREATER when it DOES happen.
Exactly, huge profits come with risk. We’ve taken the risk away.
I will be happy if we can just get rid of Senators Lugar and McCain.
Nothing is down a rathole but your rhetoric.
You don't like the fact that it worked, that doesn't mean it didn't. It didn't cost you a dime, but you hate the fact that it benefitted men you didn't want to see benefitted - tough toenails.
God how you knuckledragging finance haters steam me. You aren't conservatives at all, you are radical ideologues and you belong in your own communist party, not in mine.
It’s always a good thing when Juan Williams doesn’t sgree with something the GOP is doing. It usuallu means the GOP is doing somethimg right.
“This is evidence of how the American political center is losing, on the right wing of the party a guy like Bob Bennett, who is a right-wing conservative, is being driven out because he’s not sufficiently conservative?”
The Democrats have been taken over by the extreme left long ago, culminating in their chosing the most left wing candidate in American history as their candidate in 2008.
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