Brooks says: "Make Everybody Hurt"

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Tuesday February 22, 2011 · 9:31 AM PST

2011/02/22 · 09:31

I hate to quote Ronald Reagan, but I will do it just once:
"Here you go again," David Brooks. Mr. Brooks, on another bandwagon of spending cuts, actually wrote in the Times:
"Make Everybody Hurt". That's his plan for his so-called "unwritten austerity Constitution: a set of practices that will help us cut effectively now and in the future". He recommends that cuts be spread "more of less equitably among as many groups as possible". How nice is that? The Koch brothers get the same cuts as I do!

As usual, we of sound mind are scratching our heads at his bizarre thoughts. Thankfully, it will remain "unwritten", although many like him are trying their best to do just what he proposes. David being David, he ignores the huge elephant in the room: Raising Revenues!

Here's my Letter to the Editor:

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Monday August 04, 2008 · 6:13 AM PDT

2008/08/04 · 06:13

"There's an interesting line building on Obama that somehow success and intelligence are a handicap," said Mark Sawyer, a UCLA political scientist. "If he wasn't extraordinary, he wouldn't be there. But then he is extraordinary and it becomes, 'He is just too good, too well spoken, too accomplished.' "

For more, go to:
http://www.latimes.com/...

It's refreshing to read that at least one reporter has not drunk the Kool-Aid.

However, he does not go far enough. What he leaves out from a rather superficial survey is the big elephant in the room: Racism. Too bad. What could be more obvious? Words like "presumptuous", "arrogant", "too confident" "un-American", "exotic" (one of Pat Buchanan's favorites) are all code for.....

Uppity. And we all know what follows the word Uppity, don't we?

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Sunday June 01, 2008 · 5:45 AM PDT

2008/06/01 · 05:45

http://www.youtube.com/...

Watch the Video if you haven't seen it yet. It's only 5 minutes. I saw the last hour of this marathon on TV last night....better than any reality show

"You Bet Your Ass" Harold Ickes (great name, sir), makes an ass of himself at the Democratic Rules Committee Hearing yesterday. I couldn't believe my ears, leaving aside the totally inappropriate use on national TV of words/phrases like "your bet your ass", "hell" in a party conference. My favorite part: he actually had the "chutzpah" --another great noun of his---to compare the MI primary beauty contest with only one Miss America entry..Sen. Clinton ...to general election stats about low voter turnout as a sound reason to give Hillary Clinton the full delegation! Hellooooooooo, Harold! We are not idiots.......

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 11:07 AM PDT

2008/05/09 · 11:07

It has been surprising and disappointing to read Paul krugman's political columns for quite some time. In his defense of Hillary Clinton, he has unfortunately written a few columns pretty much based on Clinton talking points.

The one today was particularly disturbing. He wrings his hands over "race and class", while at the same time omitting the person who kept stoking the fires of race and class: Hillary Clinton herself.

He writes that "more tirades from Obama supporters against Mrs. Clinton are not the answer". Huh? Where are these tirades? The tirade that everyone heard was delivered to USA Today by Mrs. Clinton.

Paul Krugman makes no mention of it.

Read the Op-Ed in today's New York Times and my Letter to the Editor,

cc'd to Mr. Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 6:55 AM PDT

2008/04/18 · 06:55

For two days running, David Brooks has continued to insult the intelligence of most Americans, via his columns in The New York Times. I shudder to think what Jim Lehrer will let him get away with tonight.
Brooks is really on a rampage. He needs a serious timeout, as do many other pundits and media types.

It's true that this campaign has gone on waaaaaaaay too long. Everyone is getting really tired and fed up with the same old trivia and gotcha tactics. It's appalling how low journalism has sunk in this country. However long the campaign, that does not excuse the nastiness and complete fabrications that the press and TV opinionators are spewing lately. It's a pretty pathetic picture to see the moderators of the 21st Democratic Presidential Debate booed at the end.

Having joined the ranks of "People Who Are Totally Fed Up", I submit my letter to David Brooks upon reading today's column: "How Obama Fell to Earth". I encourage others to do the same. He needs to be bombarded with some sense of truth and decency!

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Monday April 14, 2008 · 12:26 PM PDT

2008/04/14 · 12:26

The New York Times columnist, William Kristol, gave Karl Rove a run for his money in today's column: "The Mask Slips".
This man has absolutely no shame whatsoever: a right-wing neoconservative who could not be more out of touch with the issues that Barack Obama cares about.
My Letter to the Editor follows below the fold, along with the link to the New Times article

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Saturday November 03, 2007 · 1:23 AM PDT

2007/11/03 · 01:23

In his decision yesterday to vote in support of Judge Mukasey's nomination as our next Attorney General, my former Senator from New York, Charles Schumer, has lost all credibiiity and brought shame to himself, his Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. and all the other Democrats who will vote Nay next Tuesday.

What follows below is the e-mail that I sent to Senator Schumer's web site.

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Saturday August 12, 2006 · 4:07 AM PDT

2006/08/12 · 04:07

Calling All Message-Challenged Congresspeople:
Put This In Your Pocket & Repeat It Every Day.
I'm sending the following letter to my Senators & Rep--(easy to do at Congress.org.)
Urge others to follow suit & to pass the letter along. Read More

"The Liberal Inquisition": The New Oxymoron

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Sunday July 09, 2006 · 1:59 PM PDT

2006/07/09 · 13:59

David Brooks has struck a new low with "The Liberal Inquisition". When have any liberal thinkers/philosophers/politicians throughout history conducted an Inquisition? That method is the sole provenance of the right, of fascists, totalitarian regimes, and religious fanatics and fundamentalists.

Currently, the conservatives and religious right have taken a noble and proud tradition--liberalism--and attempted to transform it into something profane, something somehow "un-American". They have tried by every means at their disposal to destroy its true meaning. They have perfected the art of striking at the opposition's strength. And what is that strength? None other than Liberalism in its literal meaning: the freedom and liberty upon which this country was founded. And where are the political voices from the opposition, those democratic liberals who should be denouncing these people as traitors to our government and to our nation's core principles? Except for a few, those not running for office, the voices are strangely silent.
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David Brooks Does It Again with Strange Bedfellows

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 4:54 PM PDT

2006/06/15 · 16:54

New York Times conservative columnist, master-in-chief of glib punditry, does it again in today's Op-Ed Piece: "Changing Bedfellows" ("Strange Bedfellows" would have been more accurate), but let's not quibble over semantics. He's very excited about introducing a new political construct to replace the "old" liberal vs. conservative labels. Trouble is, his new schema makes no sense. But he's very clever in a quasi-erudite way and exudes confidence in his pronouncements. That has gotten him very far, in the Times, at NPR and The NewsHour. At the end, when you stop and think about what he's written, you will scratch your head and say: "what planet is this guy living on?" Read More

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