Tag: David Brooks

The whole column is worth a read…(emphasis added) Romney, who criticizes President Obama for dividing the nation, divided the nation into two groups: the makers and the moochers. Forty-seven percent of the country, he said, are people “who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the…

David Brooks is my least favorite tier-1 pundit.  His columns consist of pointless drivel phoned in from his suburban Washington compound.  He doesn’t even try anymore.  But he is the master of the false equivalence. Call it Brooks’s Law of Political Equivalency: For any Republican/conservative/right-wing culpability, there is an equal and opposite…

Paul Ryan (R-Wall St.), Has been in the news so much its hard to keep up but I will try. First off, h/t to Lou kaye of rocknetroots who does a very good job of keeping an eye on ryan’s misdeeds(which are many). Unfortunately since the Janesville Gazette has shirked…

I have been sitting on this for a while because it did not get much press at the time. Krugman’s rebuke of Ryan, has been written about extensively. Ryan (R- Wall St), for some reason cant seem to get enough press(presidential ambitions maybe?). He also is not very good at…