DISQUS

Lolis · 1 year ago

I still despise David Brooks, but sometimes he does tell the truth.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Exactly! He nailed this one. I'm seeing a shift of consciousness. This is an example of the light coming on.

bunnyjump · 1 year ago

Schedenfraude.....

Man, this rethug house of cards is falling...now if we can see some trials and jail time.....

And the whipped cream on top of all this - Thursday's debate.

This makes me feel a little bit better after my 401k hit.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

This guy gets it! Interesting to see how many conservative thinkers are beginning to bash their own part. David Brooks has a sense of balance, and calls it right down the middle on both sides of the political game in this article. We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the two-party system as we know it.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Oh I wouldn't give David Brooks as calling it down the middle....I've seen him on those talk shows.
But when he goes to this comment....it really is a SLAM against the GOP.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Crisis of Authority. Yep.

This is what happens when people resort to election fraud to steal power in a democracy.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

because of that... the November election scares me.

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

from Kos

Seize the Day
by Devilstower
Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 07:55:05 AM PDT
Republicans egged on this economic crisis and applied every lever of the Shock Doctrine in an effort to turn it to their advantage. They created it, they stoked it, they owned it, and they desperately tried to make it work for them, but this time the flames of fear got out of their control. Unable to suss out their next move, and facing an electorate that sees them as worse than useless, House Republicans scattered in all directions. Yesterday, in a self-confessed fit of snit, they walked away from the table because that mean lady hurt their feelings.

dsound · 1 year ago

People,
We need to go with the Progressive wing of the Dem party and push for a bailout along those lines - more help for main street and less for wall street. The bail out plan this week had no real rescue plan for main street. It was a sham. Don't support any attempt at reviving the current bailout!

MrBlifil · 1 year ago

Uh...David, may I remind you of a little thing called the Terri Schiavo fiasco. Might want to add it to your little self serving list. As if David Brooks never met a House Republican he ever liked.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

There is very little resemblence between today's republican party and its policies... and that of the 1970's.

thank you moral majority and reganomics... you've managed to do something that the progressive movement was never able to: kill the republican party

keep it up... with any luck, you'll become the party with less political pull than ralph nader.

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

keep it up... with any luck, you'll become the party with less political pull than ralph nader.

I Doubt that in that vacuum the Repugs would have the good sense to understand the many truths of Ralph Nader (bullheaded, self-centered personality aside).

Butch1 · 1 year ago

Now is the time for the Democrats to write their own bill which actually does protect Main Street and "to hell" with the republicans. They have enough votes in the House to pass their own bill that should not be the "stinker" this last bill was. I have a feeling that Mainstream America will back something that actually protects them and doesn't come close to the "give-away" this previously voted-down bill presented. The wise republicans that want to try and save their seats will get on board.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

It'd be nice if Pelosi paid attention to the letter sent by economists at every major university in the country. How about a public hearing involving some? It'd be nice if someone examined how the Swedes handled their crisis a few years ago. Then write a new bill that can be sold to the American people.

Butch1 · 1 year ago

I agree with you, though Pelosi apparently, doesn't listen to the people. The people didn't want her to take impeachment off the table, yet she went ahead and did so. You will recall, the impeachment question was supposed to be addressed when Congress reconvened in September. It has been totally forgotten and she is counting on the public to continue having "short-term memory-loss" and just forget all about it. She seems hell bent on pushing through this bad piece of legislature and doesn't realize that the democrats can make up their own bill. I do not understand what is wrong with her and why she feels the need to constantly reach across the isle and deal with people who are not interested in working with her and look for any reason to skuttle any bill the democrats produce even though this was supposed to be a non-partisan bill. This November we not only need new leadership in the White House, we need new and really strong leadership in the democratic party. She has kow-towed too many times and has proven she is not up to the task of actually running the House or leading the democratic members.

I do think a wee bit more socialism injected into this bill to help Main Street is in order.

lcdrrek · 1 year ago

Butch1:
I am with you here 100%. This is where the Dems should go next. They have the votes and there is no way the President would veto such a bill. Yesterday the "commentariat" on TV were asking the question why the Dems didn't pass the bill on their own since they are in the majority? Well, how stupid can they be? Why should the Dems hang it all out there for a bill that wasn't the ideal bill that they would have wanted and risked their majority on bill that was written in order to gain Republican support? Now is the time for them to work on a Democratic bill that would meet their concerns. I think the article by David Brooks is quite telling for the Republicans, when you lose Brooks, you are really in trouble.

Butch1 · 1 year ago

Good point about Brooks, as I have never cared for his very myopic look at politics giving republicans a pass most of the time and being highly critical of the democrats, though they certainly are culpable for some of this mess.

Our main problem in the democratic majority is that there is absolutely no leadership in both the House and Senate. They only seem capable of reacting to what is presented to them and not actually taking the lead and muscling through what they want. When the republicans were in the majority, they never had that problem in fact they were quite rude about working with or without the democrats. I would like to see a little "what goes around; comes around", if they continue to obstruct everything the dems try and do. What we really need is leadership in Congress and something like what happened yesterday would never have happened under some of the stronger leaders of the House. This bunch of democrats has been the minority for so long, they have forgotten how to lead and to fight. I don't call postering and wringing of hands, leadership. In my opinion, I think the democratic caucus should vote another leader of the House and Pelosi should step down. She is not willing to fight for the American people by going after these law breakers. Hard to believe she has any power at all considering Rove and Meirs ignoring those subpoenas without any worry. They recognize she won't follow through on her threats.

Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago

Republicans and Democrats have dirty hands on Wall Street deregulation mess.

HOWEVER, I propose approving NO BAILOUT agreement UNLESS it includes "earmark" provisions to subpoena the long list of White House crooks who have been the ring leaders on deregulation, politicization of Justice Department, and other unethical or illegal acts.

Up or Down.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

Is anyone in charge of our government? $25 billion to American auto companies; $15 to $20 billion (initially) to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, $30 billion for Bear Stearns, $85 billion for AIG, and now another $700 billion. Are the CEOs still being paid millions, getting millions in bonuses and millions of stock options and other goodies? I know the US will have to do something to bail out Wall Street; I'm not convinced the way they are doing it is the best way. I have a 401K and an IRA too so every hit the stock market takes affects me personally. But Bush has no credibility and I don't trust the Repubs or the Democrats. Talk about being between the devil and the dark blue sea.

lilysmom · 1 year ago

Gingrich encouraged the House members to do this and they followed him, not Boehner, Gingrich. All, most likely, to further Gingrich's Presidential ambitions in 2012. This is the same guy who had no problem with telling his cancer-stricken wife that he was divorcing her for another woman. Spit. Heckuva role model.

Newtie... the dodohead political Genius who shut down the government in 1995. Boy that was a big success, too.

melissap · 1 year ago

Does anyone care if their portfolio gains 20% but a box of Mac and Cheese is $150 bucks? Hyper-Inflation is the biggest threat we are starring down right now. 50 -75% market losses will be nothing compared to that.

EmGD · 1 year ago

Normally I'd say fuck 'em, let them reap what they sow, but their childishness is damaging the economy. I can hardly wait until the gutless Blue Dogs cave in and do exactly what the House Republicans want: corporate tax cuts and less regulation. Yay!

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

Mike_G · 1 year ago

What’s sad is that they still think it’s 1984

Most of them think, or wish, it was 1884.

therepguy · 1 year ago

And they the republican party should get credit for this mess and for the last 8 years...

On another subject, as a small business person I called the office of the speaker of the house this morning and low and behold I got a real person in the speakers office and got to rant a bit...

I told her to keep the house in section till after the election if need be...

to re-do the bill as it should have been written...

Finnaly, I ask her to think about diving up that 1 trillion dollars bailout that bush and company was wanting amount the people, i.e., divide that amount by the number of americas 18 years and older and let the people use it as they see fit!

In others, let the vast majority us the money to pay off morages, loans, and start new business... those who simple spend the money pooly, the hell them!