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Originally Posted by randolph
BROOKS: Not so well. You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I opposed the stimulus package - I thought it was poorly drafted - but to come up at this moment in history with a stale, "government is the problem...we can't trust the government"...it's just a disaster for the Republican Party.
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Considering that Obama's popularity has finally begun to dip...
Considering his job performance rating is slowly sliding towards only 50%...
Considering that 2/3 of the American people feel Obama's economic plan is for shit...
And considering that every time Obama opens his mouth about how he's going to fix the economy, Wall Street tanks even more (And yes, it was down again today. So much for the great "inspirational" speech last night)...
...It's pretty clear that Brooks (who, by the way, is a dope most of the time anyway) STILL doesn't get it. It's not a "stale" message -- it's what the average person really DOES still believe. The Reagan years produced one of the longest stretches of sustained economic growth in America's history by doing things completely opposite from what Obama is doing now. The problem is Obama started down that path, but now he's veered wildly off the road and gone utterly spend crazy. It's like he's in race between how fast he can print money and turn right around and spend it. The Obama glow has begun to wear thin and the irony here is that he dropped a phrase saying "I get it", not realizing it's the American people who "get it" -- and what they get is that spending is totally out of control and needs to be MASSIVELY reigned in.
Brooks needs a reality check and a bucket of cold water to the face. The problem is, given his political leanings, Brooks refuses to acknowledge that the average American STILL believes in Reagan's classic line "Government isn't the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem."
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Originally Posted by randolph
BROOKS: The country is in a panic, now. They may not like the way the Congress passed the stimulus bill. The idea that government is going to have no role in this...in a moment where only the Federal government is big enough to do stuff...to just ignore all that and say government's the problem...corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending - it's just a form of nihilism.
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LMAO! This is why I love Brooks. What a buffoon. On the one hand, he's saying the Republican are guilty of nihilism. And yet on the other hand, he is literally saying (regarding the Democrats): "Okay...yes...I admit it, the stimulus bill was passed in a shitty way...yes, the government really should stay out of people's lives...yes, the Obama stimulus plan is filled with corruption, earmarks, and wasteful spending -- but so what? It's your only hope!!!"
What was that about nihilism again?