Umm. David. We remember George Bush's plans......

[kpete]

BoBo Redux: Who You Gonna Believe…me, or what the candidates very clearly say they are going to do.
Posted by Tom Levenson at 11:18 am
Oct
30
2015

At this stage it’s probably not sensible to get too worked up about the details of any candidate’s plans. They are all wildly unaffordable. What matters is how a candidate signals priorities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/opinion/the-paul-ryan-and-marco-rubio-moment.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=1

Umm. David. We remember George Bush’s plans. They signaled his priorities just fine…and he proceeded as promised to turn a robust budget surplus into the biggest upwards income redistribution in memory, along with deficits from here to Atlantis.

I had thought to fisk the whole damn column, which is full of low-hanging fruit. But really why bother? It’s all there in that don’t “get too worked up “by what alledged “wonks” actually say about the policies they wonkishly espouse. Because it’s not like they mean it.

Except they do.

And once again we see: David Brooks is a terrible public figure not because of his politics but because of his character, his willingness to be a loyal apparatchik transcribing whatever counts as pravda in that universe in which Republicans are the natural party of power.


http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/10/30/bobo-redux-who-you-gonna-believe/#comments

[Octafish]

1. Brooks is a Moonie.

Robotically programmed as the day is long.

http://www.apj.us/20060508Scoobie.html

The True Parents did give him start in the sports department. Now he does "God's work" helping the rich everywhere.