Kevin Drum: "I think I'm going to be sick." (me too...)

[kpete]

Kevin Drum puts it well:

Courageous. Serious. Gutsy. I imagine that within a few days this will be the consensus view of the entire Beltway punditocracy. A plan dedicated almost entirely to slashing social spending in a country that's already the stingiest spender in the developed world, while simultaneously cutting taxes on the rich in a country with the lowest tax rates in the developed world — well, what could be more serious than that?

I think I'm going to be sick.
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/courageous-serious-gutsy-paul-ryan
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/opinion/05brooks.html?_r=1&hp
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/brio-and-guts-and-total-heartlessness.html

[emulatorloo]

1. Yes it is sickening. rec n/t

[liberal N proud]

2. I am not sick but those bastards are!

The Books oped worship piece of shit made me lose it. :puke:

[HughBeaumont]

3. Doll Hands Brooks is SUCH a loathsome weasel.

His overall fealty to the corprocratic GOP . . . am I the only one who can taste the BILE?

[Octafish]

8. Rev Moon recognized something special in David Brooks...

For details:

Know your BFEE: Forget Rev. Wright! It’s Bush and His Cronies Who Owe an Apology for Rev. Moon!

Dave's swell.

[hifiguy]

7. David Brooks....

what a vile and smug little shit. He is five pounds of crap in a one-pound bag, sitting in a bucket of iced snot. I LOATHE that man.

[rucognizant]

18. Before we are weakened......

from lack of food........... we need to advance..................there are far more of us than them!
Bonus Army!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

[zeemike]

4. I think we are sick

And the we is us in general.
Seriously in my life time I know that back in the days before Reagan you could have never sold a plan like that to anyone...now they just expect the right wing to jump on board, and the left can go to hell...Yep we are sick.

[Lorien]

10. Right about now we need a champion. Someone with a bully pulpit

if only we had someone charismatic- a great speaker with access to the media-who could take these f*ckers on!

[russspeakeasy]

16. I'm thinking Howard Dean.

[louis-t]

23. Harry Reid is too soft-spoken.

Dean would be good.

[FrenchieCat]

20. Good luck thinking we have a bully pulpit!

Last I check, the media decides if they are even going to show
someone charismatic who is a great speaker.
Without access given by the media,
no one can hear anything......
Perhaps we should be working on that; the overwhelming power
the corporate media has over this country.

[MedicalAdmin]

24. The new bully pulpit is the internet.

BUt it's such a diverse and fractured place...

[Initech]

5. Aren't the GOP really the ones who cut and run at this point?

[catgirl]

6. Disgusting n/t

[Lorien]

9. The only thinkg that Ryan is serious about is getting rich off of America's destruction. nt

[tridim]

12. His "Munsters" residuals must be running low.

[Mnemosyne]

11. ... n/t

[kentuck]

13. First of all...

It is impossible to forecast 10 years into the future. The Bush taxcuts proved that.

[DeSwiss]

14. K&R n/t

[AmBlue]

15. Worst case ever of an Emperor with No Clothes...

...only this big bad nasty creep is drunk on his own delusions and stinks to high heaven as well!!!!

[russspeakeasy]

17. Brooks is and always has been a piece of shit.

[pansypoo53219]

19. WHY is clinton being ignored COMPLETELY in the discussion?

how come his people are not on teevee about this? HE got us in the red, WAS PAYING DOWN THE DEBT BEFORE GEORGEE FUCKING W'S TAX CUTS???? WHY IS THIS BEING IGNORED BY THE GNEWS????

sorry. PMS.

[katty]

21. the GOP wants to go back to pre-Civil War days-that is

their ideal America where white landowners and 'educated' men of property and profession made all the rules to work ONLY for them...I would argue that the rape of the new deal over 50 yrs, wars for profit, a thoroughly corrupt and greed infested body politic have resulted in the America they want, so what do they have to bitch about now?

[democrank]

22. K & R