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Clint| 1.12.11 @ 6:04PM
David Brooks Is The Mainstream Media's Faux-Conservative Bloviator. He attempts to lecture We,The Great Unwashed with his foppish dandy Ruling Elitist Apologetics Crap.
Why do you think PBS & The New York Times attempt to present him as Their Conservative Voice?
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 6:17PM
David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, David Frum, among others.
Sanity, balance, fairness.
A dying breed of conservative.
Nick| 1.12.11 @ 7:27PM
Mike,
I do hope you are being sarcastic.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 10:38PM
I was not being sarcastic.
Nick| 1.12.11 @ 11:24PM
Mike,
That's a shame. As you should be.
Sea Cucumber| 1.13.11 @ 10:41AM
Mike, you shouldn't worry so much. The neocons aren't going to be dying out anytime soon.
Clint| 1.12.11 @ 6:23PM
They're dying because they're RINO-CINO's
Mike | 1.12.11 @ 6:25PM
And like all ideologues, you are in command of absolute truth?
Patriot| 1.12.11 @ 6:53PM
At least we stand for something. Do you?
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 10:41PM
I do know for what I stand.
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 12:42AM
Please share.
Clint| 1.12.11 @ 6:27PM
I'm in command of common sense.
Now tell everyone,who ya voted for.
Occam's Tool| 1.13.11 @ 2:07AM
Dear Clint: I voted for The War Hero, Caribou Barbie, Cravaack, Emmer. Straight Republican/no chaser. Please call me an Israel/Firster with Caps aGain.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 6:46PM
Now, Clint. Fess up. You loved Bush because he cut your taxes. You cared not a whit about the debt he piled up. Are you benefiting from the prescription drug program? You probably even forgave his efforts at immigration reform.
You were probably luke warm about the maverick, but you fell helplessly in love with the vice presidential candidate.
Miss anything?
Patriot| 1.12.11 @ 6:56PM
Yes, you've missed everything, as usual.
Many on the Right were infuriated with Bush's spending and his mealy-mouthed immigration reform efforts. You're clueless.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 7:05PM
Many were infuriated well after the fact. I didn't see the anger at this site until very late in the game.
Patriot| 1.12.11 @ 8:19PM
I guess you weren't paying attention then. That's your problem not ours.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 10:40PM
Sorry, Patriot. But I was paying attention.
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 12:43AM
No you weren't or you wouldn't have made your first post.
tonypal| 1.12.11 @ 9:12PM
No, we were pissed at the time. The fact that you didn't pick up on it is your problem, not ours. Maybe we were more pissed with liberals who proposed even larger budgets than republicans.
Seriously though, do you really care about the debt? Liberals have as much credibility on that issue as they have on the issue of heated rhetoric and bullseye maps. By the way, in case you haven't seen this, check it out:
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm.....;subid=171
Kind of cool, huh? Anyway, why don't you do a little research and check out what the democrats were proposing back during Bush's presidency. Yes I know that the republicans controlled the House for 6 years during that time. But it's a matter of record that House democrats offered competing budgets. That's how it's done. Obviously they lost due to their minority status at the time, but that doesn't free them from responsibility. Had they actually won those votes, the debt and deficit would have been much larger. Don't take my word for it, do the research and learn something. Use that wonderfully open mind of yours.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 10:49PM
So, the Democrats were expanding government. Surely, nobody can be surprised at that. On the other hand, the GOP was duplicitous. Wouldn't you agree?
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 12:45AM
GWB was a big spending RINO, pure and simple.
I thought you libs loved duplicity, considering the sneaky way you passed ObamaCare on a holiday weekend in the middle of the night. Nice try, though.
Occam's Tool| 1.12.11 @ 9:32PM
It wasn't his tax cutting---that INCREASED tax revenues. It wasx the insane spending, like the new Medicare entitlements, that caused the deficit.
Mike (no D there), taxes should be used to raise money, not to further redistributionalist ends.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 10:53PM
The bubble increased the revenue. By the way, look at job creation after the Bush tax cuts. Not very impressive.
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 12:50AM
Unemployment was 4.7% when liberals took over congress in 2007--that's very impressive! Unemployment is 9.7% now after 4 years of a liberal congress. That's also impressive--in a very, very bad way.
Facts are inconvenient things I know.
Clint| 1.12.11 @ 6:57PM
Wrong .
Guess Again Pseudo-intellect.
Now, Fess Up !
Tell Everyone Who Ya Voted For.
Are Ya Ashamed Of It?
Then Fess Up Sport.
Mike| 1.12.11 @ 10:55PM
No need to, Clint. You already believe that I voted for Obama and if I told you otherwise, you wouldn't believe me.
Am I wrong?
Clint| 1.13.11 @ 12:41AM
See that Sport.
You Just Can't Fess Up.
I Don't Know Who Ya Voted For, But Apparently, Ya Ain't Real Proud About It.
Teflon93| 1.12.11 @ 7:03PM
Perhaps Krugman's pant leg is perfectly creased.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.12.11 @ 7:19PM
Maybe David Brooks is worried about running into Paul Krugman in the elevator, or maybe he's worried that the Editor will take away his little office with a view of the alley below. It sounds to me, like he's afraid of something, maybe it's his lack of core principles.
Nick| 1.12.11 @ 8:09PM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Loughner posted online that college women like to be sexually assaulted.
So, I guess he was a fan of Bill Clinton.
Patriot| 1.12.11 @ 8:20PM
Now I know that kid's a Liberal for sure!