dagblog - Comments for "David Brooks at the Budget Motel"

Well, this is more of the

moat — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:05:21 +0000

In reply to David Brooks at the Budget Motel

Well, this is more of the "thousand points of light" stuff handed out in other pamphlets.To wit: The brutality of our system is balanced out by another element.

I have seen and have benefited from what he is talking about. There is another kind of connection happening.

To suggest it is a dynamic counter balance to the problems we face is ludicrous. It is like glorifying the life raft while watching the ship sink.

He does appear to be rather

trkingmomoe — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:50:12 +0000

In reply to Good human being but dim is

He does appear to be rather dumb.

Good human being but dim is

NCD — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 05:08:16 +0000

In reply to I've written this before and

Good human being but dim is what they said about Dubya. The body count would tend to indicate otherwise.

Brooks is anything but dim. He has been wrong on virtually every topic for 15 years and has never missed a paycheck or admitted error.

David Brooks, Feb, 2003 : Paul Wolfowitz is an 'effective policy practitioner', and those who criticize his Iraq war plans do so because he is 'now the focus of world anti-Semitism'.

David Brooks, March 10, 2003 : GW Bush decisive, coherent and 'leading to protect'. (just weeks before the invasion)

David Brooks April 28 2003 : Proclaims the Iraq War over, and for 'Bush haters' 'hatred is tribal not ideological', and it is 'all that is left of their leftism'.

David Brooks July 3 2004 : Iraq now has a popular government with a tough, capable minister. Democratic institutions are emerging, including a culture of compromise. . . . Thanks, in part, to [U.S. administrator Paul] Bremer’s decisiveness

David Brooks March 26, 2005 : Agonizes over the 'slow dehydration' of brain dead Terri Schiavo.

David Brooks Dec. 15 2006 - (as the war drags on - focuses on Rumsfeld) - people within the Pentagon talking about the need for anthropologists to understand the culture of Iraq. And that's something the Pentagon in general, and I think Rumsfeld in particular, had some trouble with. (Brooks had no trouble with it?)

You might imagine it, but I don't believe you can have an 'honest debate' with a shameless and sleazy right wing sycophant like Brooks.

I agree Flavius. He really

ocean-kat — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:06:22 +0000

In reply to I've written this before and

I agree Flavius. He really does try to understand the democratic and liberal point of view. He misses the mark often but he does try. Most other conservative commentators purposely distort the views of the left to smear us and spin for their team. One could have an honest debate with Brooks.

I've written this before and

Flavius — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:58:40 +0000

In reply to David Brooks at the Budget Motel

I've written this before and not to repeat it would be cowardice: I think Brooks is a good human being. But dim.

To repeat : if all the seats in if the plane were full except for the one next to me ,into which the cabin staff was going to seat someone. , Brooks is the only right wing commentator whose presence in that space would not cause me to demand a parachute and the opening of an emergency door,

I'm the Valet! Wooo-Hooo!!

MrSmith1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:28:44 +0000

In reply to No, I'M the manager. You can

I'm the Valet! Wooo-Hooo!! Wait. My job is to titillate the crowd? Oy.
Well, I'm a little out of practice, but ... Let me see if that old leather outfit still fits.

Maybe Brooks fall into this

trkingmomoe — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:46:19 +0000

In reply to David Brooks at the Budget Motel

Maybe Brooks fall into this category? He thinks the population is richer then it is.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/28/rich-people-surrounded-by-other-rich-people-think-america-is-richer-than-it-really-is/?postshare=5651438088221178

This implies that attitudes about programs like welfare aren't based solely on political ideology or self-interest (if I have a lot of money, I don't want to be taxed more). They're also influenced by cues we get from the environment around us. That means that the wealthy don't just lack information aboutwhat it's like to be poor; they also lack basic information about how pervasive poverty is:

These results suggest that the rich and poor do not simply have different views about how wealth should be distributed across society; rather, they subjectively experience living in societies that have subtle—but important—differences. Thus, in the relatively affluent America inhabited by wealthier Americans, there is less need to distribute wealth more equally.

This finding is particularly worrisome given that economic segregation isworsening in America. We are less and less likely to live near, and interact with, people whose incomes don't look like our own. And the economic gap between rich and poor communities — often within the same metropolitan area — is widening. If the wealthy, occupying their own separate world, interacted with few poor families in the past, they're even less likely to meet them now.

No, I'M the manager. You can

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:46:00 +0000

In reply to Oooo, Oooo!! I wanna be

No, I'M the manager. There can only be one. You can be the valet.

Well, we all need our

Richard Day — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:06:58 +0000

In reply to Hookers and sex toys?

Well, we all need our distractions, from time to time.

hahahahahah

I just do not trust people like Brooks or Sourkraut.

This passive aggressive crap...there are other variables hidden.

Hookers and sex toys?

Oxy Mora — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:56:12 +0000

In reply to I dunno, you have me laughing

Hookers and sex toys?

Well someone else might say that but I of course can't comment.