I\u2019ve always considered David Brooks the Liberal’s Conservative. He seems reasonable; he\u2019s not angry. I assume the Mad Hatters consider him a socialist.<\/p>\n
ThinkProgress \u00bb David Brooks Slams GOP Obstructionism: \u2018If You Offered Them 99-1, They\u2019d Say No\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n Brooks: \u201cwe\u2019ve substituted governance for brokerism, for rigidity that Ronald Regan didn\u2019t have<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And to me, this rigidity comes from this polarizing world view<\/font> that they\u2019re a bunch of socialists over there<\/strong>. You know, again, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with the president. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with the people around him. They\u2019re liberals! \u2026 But they\u2019re not idiots. And they\u2019re not Europeans, and they don\u2019t want to be a European welfare state<\/strong>. \u2026 It\u2019s American liberalism, and it\u2019s not inflexible.<\/font>\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n ThinkProgress \u00bb David Brooks Slams GOP Obstructionism: \u2018If You Offered Them 99-1, They\u2019d Say No\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n I think whatever flexibility the Left possess is regarded as despicable weakness by the Radical Wrong. And many on the Left are tired of being bullied. But we don\u2019t waive our guns in their faces; we just say, Fuck You All.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve always considered David Brooks the Liberal’s Conservative. He seems reasonable; he\u2019s not angry. I assume the Mad Hatters consider him a socialist. ThinkProgress \u00bb David Brooks Slams GOP Obstructionism: \u2018If You Offered Them 99-1, They\u2019d Say No\u2019 Brooks: \u201cwe\u2019ve substituted governance for brokerism, for rigidity that Ronald Regan didn\u2019t have. And to me, this … Continue reading David Brooks Slams GOP Obstructionism: ‘If You Offered Them 99-1, They’d Say No’<\/span> \n