David Brooks is still a moron

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/11/22/14359/022

Casual Observation

by BooMan
Tue Nov 22nd, 2011 at 02:03:59 PM EST


David Brooks is still a moron. His "Two Moons" analogy is stupid. What we have is one party that is trying to govern responsibly and one party that has cracked up on the rocks and gone plumb crazy. We have one party that relies on studies, statistics, scientific consensus, and expert testimony, and one party that relies on Fox News, hate radio, and paid hacks. This isn't an amicable disagreement. People hate Congress, first and foremost, because they can't get anything done. And the reason they can't anything done is because of the Republicans have gone insane. People hate Congress because whenever they do get something done, it's a better deal for the pharmaceutical industry or the banks or the insurers than it is for the people. And that's also the Republicans' fault because they nominated the judges who turned corporations into people and money into free speech. And the Republicans won't agree to anything that corporations are not demanding.

So, David Brooks can go shove it.

Plus, there is plenty of internal disagreement within the Democratic Party. It's what we're best known for and it hasn't gone away.




http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/brooks-the-two-moons.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

The Two Moons
By DAVID BROOKS

In 1951, Samuel Lubell invented the concept of the political solar system. At any moment, he wrote, there is a Sun Party (the majority party, which drives the agenda) and a Moon Party (the minority party, which shines by reflecting the solar rays).

During Franklin Roosevelt’s era, Democrats were the Sun Party. During Ronald Reagan’s, Republicans were. Then, between 1996 and 2004, the two parties were tied. We lived in a 50-50 nation in which the overall party vote totals barely budged five elections in a row. It seemed then that we were in a moment of transition, waiting for the next Sun Party to emerge.

But something strange happened. No party took the lead. According to data today, both parties have become minority parties simultaneously. We are living in the era of two moons and no sun.

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[provis99]

1. get off the crackpipe, Brooks.

useless tool.

[tularetom]

2. So did he like, stop being a moron for awhile?

If he did, I must have missed it.

Here's an illustration of the "Two Moons" theory:

[TheKentuckian]

10. That is what I'm saying.

Water is still wet and fire still hot.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. His "performance" on Charlie Rose last night was gag-inducing.

Brooks came off as some philosophical all-knowing wise man, as he did his usual "both sides are to blame" and took no responsibility for the damage he and his right wing cronies are doing to the country.

http://www.charlierose.com/

If you can stomach it.

[BlueIris]

6. Thanks. I'm trying to work up the stomach to watch that shite.

I'm not gonna make it...

[stockholmer]

9. here is the direct link

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12001

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. K & R

:kick:

[PETRUS]

5. He's a mouthpiece for the 1%

[JoePhilly]

7. Calling him a Moron would be a promotion.

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. yes he is. Since no one can to deny the looniness of today's Republican Party he concocts a

a ludicrous moral equivalency as if the Democratic Party is now as ideologically left-wing as the Republican Party is stridently Right-wing. This of course is ludicrous. But it is the mime promoted by certain element of the media. For the Democratic Party to be in the same league of relative ideological position of left vs right as the Republicans - Ward Churchill would be the candidate of the firebrand base in the relative position now being held in the Republican Party by Newt and held earlier by Cain, Bachmann and Perry. And Noam Chomsky would be the boring party establishment candidate holding the position of mundane respectability now held by Mitt. The whole premise that anti-corporate liberals are even in a positions of decision making influence in the leadership of the Democratic Party bares absolutely no resemblance to reality - much less the idea that the Democratic Party is as far to the left as the Republican Party is far to the right. Brooks is not living in the real world. But then again neither are much of the intellectually pathetic and disinterested so-called mainstream media.

[flpoljunkie]

11. Rec for the title alone!

:)

[lunatica]

12. Those two moons are David Brooks' ass as his pants fall down to his ankles