Conservative columnist David Brooks of the NY Times finally admitted what most of America already knows.
Yes, I’m a sap.
He tries to turn that statement around in his idiotic op-ed by saying that he always truly believed Obama would do great things, but because of his deficit reduction speech, he's now disillusioned. Does the NY Times really believe the words he's putting down on paper? If they do and he does then I have an old crumbling bridge to sell them.
Yes, I’m a sap. I believed Obama when he said he wanted to move beyond the stale ideological debates that have paralyzed this country. I always believe that Obama is on the verge of breaking out of the conventional categories and embracing one of the many bipartisan reform packages that are floating around.
But remember, I’m a sap. The White House has clearly decided that in a town of intransigent Republicans and mean ideologues, it has to be mean and intransigent too. The president was stung by the liberal charge that he was outmaneuvered during the debt-ceiling fight. So the White House has moved away from the Reasonable Man approach or the centrist Clinton approach.
David, David, David. Your party has been taken over by ideologues that pray to Ayn Rand before they go to bed at night. Don't you even remember your own columns? You admitted that the GOP has changed into Beltway Bandits, Big Government Blowhards, Show Horses and Permanent Campaigners. In other words, a bunch of political lunatics. And you're disillusioned with the one person that tried to negotiate with these people?
