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GM Will Drive Obama Off Cliff: Brooks
GM Will Drive Obama Off Cliff: Brooks
OPINION

GM Will Drive Obama Off Cliff: Brooks

Company can't be saved; political costs of bankruptcy are huge

(Newser) - For decades, General Motors hasn’t been so much in the automaking business, David Brooks writes in the New York Times, as “in the restructuring business.” And for just as long, presidents have sought to push bankruptcy into the future. By getting serious, though, “the Obama administration...

Obama Has Right Idea on Education
 Obama Has Right 
 Idea on Education 
OPINION

Obama Has Right Idea on Education

Breaks with party orthodoxy

(Newser) - David Brooks crosses ideological lines to give President Obama a big shout-out on his education strategy today in the New York Times. "He has broken with liberal orthodoxy on school reform more than any other policy," Brooks raves. "He's naturally inclined to be data driven. There's reason...

GOP Must Rethink 'Totally Misguided' Stance: Brooks

Obstructionist strategy seems lame

(Newser) - The Republican response to the fiscal crisis is “totally misguided,” David Brooks writes in the New York Times. Republicans are opposing everything out of a belated sense of fiscal discipline, “at the one moment in the past 70 years when it is completely inappropriate,” he sighs....

White House Responds, With Civility
White House Responds,
With Civility
OPINION

White House Responds, With Civility

Brooks still hates the budget, but he applauds new tone

(Newser) - In the Bush years, publishing a New York Times op-ed criticizing the White House could get your wife outed as an undercover CIA agent. But when David Brooks wrote earlier this week that the 2010 budget was too liberal, the Obama administration was much gentler—he got calls from four...

Is Obama Trying to Fix Too Much at Once?
Is Obama Trying to Fix Too Much at Once?
OPINION

Is Obama Trying to Fix Too Much at Once?

Despite new prez's gifts, Brooks worries he's moving too fast

(Newser) - David Brooks is not a liberal, but the New York Times columnist doesn't hesitate to call himself "a great admirer of Barack Obama and those around him." Yet as the new administration has thrown itself at a dozen staggering problems, from fixing health care and the auto industry...

Sorry, Greenies, Americans Still Like Sprawl

(Newser) - When urban planners dream, they dream that Americans will give up on the suburbs in favor of a dense, environmentally friendly, less auto-dependent lifestyle. And it’s never going to happen, David Brooks writes in the New York Times. “Amsterdam is a wonderful city, but Americans never seem to...

No Golden Toilets; Liberals Are On the Case
No Golden Toilets; Liberals Are On the Case
OPINION

No Golden Toilets; Liberals Are On the Case

The rules have changed for the über-rich: Brooks

(Newser) - David Brooks is worried about the rich people. Consider poor John Thain. One minute, it was OK to spend $35,000 on a commode, the next it was an embarrassment, Brooks opines in the New York Times. The same shame could befall countless billionaires who don’t realize the rules...

Obama Dines With Conservative Kings

Dinner with vocal conservative critics

(Newser) - Barack Obama broke bread with America's most influential conservative opinion shapers last night. The Washington Post reports he was guest of honor at a dinner party given by columnist George Will, along with Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer. Rumors were buzzing that Rush Limbaugh would attend, but a...

Unprepared Next Gen Faces 'Stone-Cold Scarcity'
Unprepared Next Gen Faces 'Stone-Cold Scarcity'
OPINION

Unprepared Next Gen Faces 'Stone-Cold Scarcity'

Can young people used to prosperity handle scarcity?

(Newser) - Today marks a national sea change, the “end of an economic era, a political era, and a generational era,” writes David Brooks in the New York Times. “The baby boomers have been a politically undistinguished generation,” he writes, and now, “change is demanded." If...

Conservative Sees Future in Palin
 Conservative 
 Sees Future 
 in Palin 
OPINION

Conservative Sees Future in Palin

Movement needs 'plain spoken' leader like VP candidate, not 'over-delicate' Noonans

(Newser) - Conservative commentators who shamelessly jump on the Barack Obama bandwagon are blinkered to the new face of conservatism, Tony Blankley writes in the Washington Times. Just like “me-too” Republicans of the New Deal era, “they all cast their admiration for Mr. Obama in contrast to Sarah Palin—who...

Populism Killed the Republican Party
Populism Killed the Republican Party
OPINION

Populism Killed the Republican Party

Anti-elite attitude personified by Palin drove away base

(Newser) - Anti-intellectual populism has reduced the Republicans to a resentful rump party, writes David Brooks in the New York Times. A movement that once prized good ideas began to rely on bashing the educated as a political tactic. “What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain...

Bailout Ushers In New Era of Regulation

Increased oversight a natural byproduct or turbulent economic times

(Newser) - When the dust settles on the $700-billion federal bailout, one thing will be clear, the Wall Street Journal writes: that it signals a swing toward government intervention in the business world not seen since the 1980s. Treasury becoming a shareholder in firms it lends to, regulation of credit-default swaps, limits...

Why Obama Popularity Isn't Moving Polls
 Why Obama Popularity
 Isn't Moving Polls
OPINION

Why Obama Popularity Isn't Moving Polls

(Newser) - Despite an enormous fan base and adoration from around the globe, Barack Obama remains only a few points ahead of John McCain in polls. New York Times columnist David Brooks speculates that that's because he too often “stands apart” from others. His perapatetic childhood and multi-ethnic family gave him...

Not So Fast With Those Numbers, David Brooks
Not So Fast With Those Numbers, David Brooks
ANALYSIS

Not So Fast With Those Numbers, David Brooks

Obama's tax rate for the rich no steeper than in the '90s

(Newser) - Despite David Brooks' attempts to “muddy” the mathematical waters, Barack Obama’s tax plan doesn’t hit the wealthy very hard—and it’s the one that helps the middle class, Jared Bernstein writes in Talking Points Memo Café. Brooks wrote in the Times that moneyed Americans would pay...

Clinton Loses Right-Wing Media Allies

As senator looks to her left, conservative bedfellows are bailing

(Newser) - The conservative press, once a surprising ally for Hillary Clinton, is turning out to be about as loyal as the Democratic senator should have expected, Politico writes. Though long reviled by the far-right masses, Clinton once had the carefully cultivated respect of some rightish media players like Rupert Murdoch and...

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