Et Tu, Brooks?

Thank you…there is hope out there and these men prove it by waking up. Keep spreading the news.

What’s sad is that they were ever fooled in the first place. Many of us saw this coming. Let’s hope the 10 percent of Americans in the middle who decide elections wake up to these same points over the next three-plus years so we can send BHO packing in ’12!

No one with Obama’s education could possibly be making the mistakes he is making in the economy.
His desire is to destroy the economy and make all Americans dependent on the government. It’s a way to grow power for the political class.

Obama is going to be worse than Carter.
AND that is very bad.

And I should have added, that $1 billion/day in interest payments on Obama’s spending is actually more based on the administration’s calculations.

“What say you? Any significance to this?”
Yeah, Brooks and young Buckley put voluntary blinders on to “hope” for “change” by a “cool” guy, ignoring all the red flags that assured those paying attention, that Obama was influenced by radical left wing thought.
It’s shocking that these supposedly really smart guys (and gals, Ms. Parker) were so influenced by celebrity that they sold their souls to be in the shallow popular crowd, completely disregarding what an Obama presidency would do to democracy (and our economy).

Significance? not much, more like recognition of reality….the reality that Obama is a far left wing politician.
As his record before the Presidency indisputably proved he was, and such record was completely obscured by the media in lieu of the “post partisan centrist new way” narrative.
Brooks, Buckley and Parker just bought the martini-sipping DC talk about the great new way of Obama, and it doesnt hurt to get on talking head shows every day up to the election and beyond if you’re an “Obama conservative”.
Sad, but true.
The facts havent changed one iota. Obama has always been and always will be a hard left pol.

Here’s some more Brooks doublespeak and cognitive dissonance from this morning — moderates have to force Obama to show his “best self”???
ARe you kidding me???? Like some whining by sellout conservatives for Obama is goign to change his decades long adherence to the hard left? Seriously?
The excerpt:
Moderates are going to have to try to tamp down the polarizing warfare that is sure to flow from Obama’s über-partisan budget. They will have to face fiscal realities honestly and not base revenue projections on rosy scenarios of a shallow recession and robust growth next year.
They will have to take the economic crisis seriously and not use it as a cue to focus on every other problem under the sun. They’re going to have to offer an agenda that inspires confidence by its steadiness rather than shaking confidence with its hyperactivity.
If they can do that, maybe they can lure this White House back to its best self — and someday offer respite from the endless war of the extremes.

Even worse, Obama’s revenue projections are laughable. Government revenues will implode next fiscal year. We are going into debt so massive that default or hyperinflation will be the only way out. And Obama and Congress have abandoned all pretense of responsibility. George Bush got his war, so by God, they’re going to get theirs too, no matter what the cost.
Bush may have steered us up the creek, but instead of turning us around and steering us out, Congress is busy throwing the paddles and lifejackets overboard, while Obama takes an axe to the floorboards.

Well, look at the positive side of this. Obama saved at least $4 Trillion by not not spending an additional $4 Trillion. We should be grateful, no?

wake up!
President Obama compensated for republicans in the stimulus package with tax cuts etc. from the beginning. And still got his hand bitten off.
He starts left on the budget and moves to the middle with republican push back.
Go Pres. always 2 steps ahead.

My only question is to Jake Tapper…Jake how does it feel to be the last honest political reporter in the country? What has happened to your colleagues? My only wish is that the producers would let a little more of the Blog Jake through in your nightly news casts, but I still enjoy them nonetheless.

“President Obama compensated for republicans in the stimulus package with tax cuts etc. from the beginning. And still got his hand bitten off.”
Actually I think he promised that in his campaign did he not? Tax cut for 95% of Americans? I guess he checked that box with $13 a month. Is that now a Republican compromise?
“interested in political posturing than any type of compromise and the American people.”
I love statements like this. When the Republicans were in power, Bush had to compromise to the Democrats yada yada. Now that Obama is in power, the Republicans have to compromise with the Democrats. This is classic narrow perspective. Both parties pull this, how is it that one party is more noble than the other at any given time?

If anyone had been willing to explore the Chicago Annenberg Challenge- apart from the Ayers issue- they would have noticed Obama as an executive is more than willing to throw money at programs with little consideration for results or opportunity cost.
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$50,000,000 from the Annenberg Foundation achieved nothing in Chicago Public Schools according to the studies commissioned by the CAC. Unfortunately, another $110,000,000 in public and other foundation’s funds were wasted in that boondoggle as well.

“Obama’s agenda is not radical . . . it is exactly what he promised to do during his two year campaign.”
It is radical, and it is exactly what he promised. The point you are missing is that many people like David Brooks saw what they wanted to see and heard what they wanted to hear and not what was really there. The scales are now falling from their eyes. Those are the people who put Obama over the top, and he’s started losing them only one month into his administration.

Say I: Better never than late, geniuses.

What I think is significant is that Jake Tapper takes his cues as to whether or not Obama is doing well from people like Rubin, Brooks and Buckley.
I wonder why it is that so many Democrats say that the DC political class (including reporters) is still “wired for Republicans”?

Nashville fan, are you serious when you write, “Obama’s agenda is not radical . . . it is exactly what he promised to do during his two year campaign.” The two parts of your sentence do not necessarily go together, btw. Yes, his agenda is radical, that is to say, extremely liberal. He wants to institute a cap-and-trade policy, which will be extremely expensive and detrimental to the economy. He wants to have the government control health care. He wants the highest levels of federal discretionary spending as a percentage of the GDP that we have ever seen. To my mind, these things are “radical.”
Yet you have a point in saying that he ‘promised’ these things in the campaign. These liberal notions kept popping up, but were either dismissed as “running left” to win the nomination, with the idea for many that he would not actually govern from the left once elected, or were ignored by folks like Brooks who only heard what they wanted to hear.
“The media is only surprised that he is actually going to do what he said. Get use to it.” I do not think of commentators like Brooks and Buckley as ‘media.’ And the mainstream media does not seem terribly surprised– some of them seem pleased, to be sure. And I fear we will all have to ‘get used to it.’ Some of us just have the good sense to think of that as a bad thing rather than something to celebrate.
You conclude: “America approves.” But I doubt the veracity of that statement. America, it seems, approves of Obama as a person. They approve of his election. Whether they will approve of the specific policies and programs that will go with his election remains to be seen, because I think there are a lot of people like David Brooks who are starting to have buyers’ remorse. I know that my students who were so enthusiastic about Obama before the inauguration are more often now beginning sentences with, “I WISH the president would…” or “I WISH the president had not…” rather than the earlier, “You know that the president will…” They seem increasingly unsure that the president is on the same page they are on. (I simply listen to these conversations. I do not discuss politics with my students and I seriously doubt that more than one or two could correctly identify my political party or the ticket for which I voted in November. They seem to assume that, since I am an academic, I must be a liberal democrat) And my parents, who are life-long Democrats, are growing more concerned about his financial policies by the day.
But you reveal your naivety with your statement: “P.S. All the whining about the budget deficit is kind of comical. . . this country has been running deficits for years.” Well, as a whiner about deficits, I would point out that #1, I have complained about them in the past just as I do today, regardless of the party in power and #2, the deficits being proposed by Obama (esp. if you ignore his laughably rosy economic projects and use more realistic assessment of economic growth for the future and adjust the deficit estimates accordingly)are massive in comparison with what has gone before.
Now when the President wants to provide the American people some relief, it’s magically time to balance the budget.
When will be the right time for the needs of the American people to come first? Reading the posts here, I guess the answer is never.
Question: If you didn’t have a job, a home, or healthcare – how many years do you think you could wait for assistance?

The lemmings who voted for this catastrophe are loosing everything like everyone else. Kiss your retirement bye, the equity in your home, your childrens’ hope for the future and most of what made this country great.
The emperor is dancing around the mansion with the big plane and fleet of choppers. Man, want to shoot some hoops? Cool.
Let’s all get a number tattooed on our wrists, the concentration camps can’t be far off.