Interesting conversation by NYTimes reporters on MTP...

[kentuck]

David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, and Thomas Friedman all had interesting and insightful comments, I thought. Brooks, the Bush supporter, thought some of taxcuts might need a rollback but did not think that would happen with Bush because he really believes in the taxcuts. As proof, he said the deficit shrunk by $250 billion dollars just this year. Friedman pointed out that the growth was still less than 3.5% and nothing to really brag about. That Bush and the White House had the wind at their backs after 9/11 but the world has now changed and with Katrina, the wind is in their faces. Dowd commented that Hillary was not leading the move to get the troops out of Iraq because she has asked for more troops there. They seemed to all agree that the Democratic Party was split on the war - most of the would-be candidates actually voted for the authorization - with the exceptions of Feingold and Gore. But, they all seemed to agree that the incompetence of George Bush has been exposed.

[stellanoir]

1. minor correction

His name is Thomas Friedman.

Yeah it was one of the better round tables.

[kentuck]

2. Corrected. Sorry about that. :)

I was reading about Joe Klein on another post. Apologies to whichever is offended. :)

[stellanoir]

3. no biggie

:hi: