Poor fella, despite being smacked in the face by reality, day in and day out, David Brooks still believes in President Obama, or at least he believes in the Obama he fell in love with. Now he calls himself a “sap.”
That means when he talks about raising revenue, which he is right to do, he can’t really talk about anything substantive. He can’t tax gasoline. He can’t tax consumption. He can’t do a comprehensive tax reform. He has to restrict his tax policy changes to the top 2 percent, and to get any real revenue he’s got to hit them in every which way. We’re not going to simplify the tax code, but by God Obama’s going to raise taxes on rich people who give to charity! We’ve got to do something to reduce the awful philanthropy surplus plaguing this country!
The president believes the press corps imposes a false equivalency on American politics. We assign equal blame to both parties for the dysfunctional politics when in reality the Republicans are more rigid and extreme. There’s a lot of truth to that, but at least Republicans respect Americans enough to tell us what they really think. The White House gives moderates little morsels of hope, and then rips them from our mouths. To be an Obama admirer is to toggle from being uplifted to feeling used.
The White House has decided to wage the campaign as fighting liberals. I guess I understand the choice, but I still believe in the governing style Obama talked about in 2008. I may be the last one. I’m a sap.
Yes, Mr. Brooks, you are a sap. Nothing a little dose of Kool Aid won’t cure.
Update: Now memeorandum has a thread.
Tags: David Brooks, Kool Aid, obama, sap
Brooks is another dope and useful idiot. Put him in the box of flakes with Peggy Noonan, Tucker Carlson, Colin Powell, and other so called by the LMSM “conservatives”.
I’m rather surprised at his sudden awareness of Dear Leader’s campaign on charitable giving. Progressives have been trying to eradicate charity for decades. They’ve purposely lessened the deductibility for two reasons. The first and least important is the direct monetary benefit to both parties. The second and most important is the basic foundational American idea of being charitable which eliminates the government’s role.
It’s the replacement by government of the wonderful human feeling one gets of giving directly to another to help is frightfully imperative for them to succeed.
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There are still people who refer to Brooks as a “conservative”. Conservative compared to what,Castro?, Stalin?
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