Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

No one could have predicted…

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

People are complicated. Love is not.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Everybody saw this coming.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

This blog will pay for itself.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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  1. 1.

    danimal

    Homeless? Didn’t Brooks precede you in Europe by a few weeks. You would think he could find a home on one of the two continents.

    Maybe if we sent him to Asia…I hear Kandahar is nice, with plenty of cheap housing available.

  3. 3.

    Suffern ACE

    I don’t think he has the rank to register the protest, in the military branch that is the pundit class.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Skimming through the column, Brooks mocks solar panels and calls for a party that would seek out ideas that would lead to solutions. Why hasn’t anyone thought of ideas and solutions?

    He calls it Hamiltonian, I’m gonna call it Costanzian– “The Human Fund: Money for People”

  9. 9.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    wow, that he could declare himself “homeless” even in the abstruse political sense, shows a deep hobophobia on his part. more importantly who gives a fuck whether he likes it or not. or whether his personal ennui reveals once again, nostalgia for an old guard elitist conservatism that he in fact pushed towards the margins.

    if only someone would satisfy david brooks like applebee’s cheesy corn? won’t some one think of david brooks?

    on a side note, i actually found myself inside a real and unctious applebees recently, did you know these motherfuckers ruined one of the all time great drinks, cadillacmargaritawithoutthetrash, by adding, you guessed it, trash. seriously a marnier/cointreau type liquer and tequila iced and poured neat. they fuck it up with flavors ice and god knows what the fuck else.

  10. 10.

    Jennifer

    Inadequate? Unpossible, after they all supported the Ryan plan to kill the old people, which Bobo assured us all was a deeply serious game-changer.

    (Note: I agree it was a game-changer…but it changed the game in a different way than Bobo would have liked.)

  14. 14.

    dollared

    I think you’ll find the article on Hamilton in Conservapedia very enlightening. Did you know that Alexander Hamilton was the only CIA operative who saw Mohammed Atta meet with Saddam’s people in Prague?

    And that he was the man who first realized that the greatest danger the Federal Government could pose to the Republic would be to run a fiscal surplus?

  16. 16.

    Wannabe Speechwriter

    I can never quite decide-is David Brooks just dumb or is this all an act?

  18. 18.

    Cliff in NH

    @Cliff in NH:

    Handy tip to homebrewers:

    Don’t use five star PBW without some sort of safety glasses when aggressively using a brush cleaning carboys. (or even pulling the brush out gently)

    from the MSDS:
    EYE CONTACT: Irritant, prolonged contact may damage eye.
    SKIN CONTACT: Irritant, prolonged contact will cause redness and blistering.

    Take a shower if exposed.

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Lash out” all you want to, dumbass.

    No one with functioning synapses gives a flaming fuck about you or your dipshit opinions.

    The sooner you’re waylaid by highwaymen looking for lupins, the better, BoBo.

  20. 20.

    RandyH

    @RandyH:

    Now we are talking about Bobo here. I would suggest that this is a MUCH better match: I’m With Stupid which was originally done as a tribute to Tony Blair’s relationship with George W Bush.
    (also a live recording.)

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    @Cliff in NH:

    Don’t use five star PBW without some sort of safety glasses when aggressively using a brush cleaning carboys. (or even pulling the brush out gently)

    Pabst Brew Wibbon?

  22. 22.

    RandyH

    @Mnemosyne:

    I got the link to your name wrong.

    Now we are talking about Bobo here. I would suggest that this is a MUCH better match: I’m With Stupid which was originally done as a tribute to Tony Blair’s relationship with George W Bush.
    (also a live recording.)

    Randy +5

  26. 26.

    Aqualad08

    He’s homeless…he’s got no forwarding address…he’s homeless…

    Does this mean he’s going to eat garbage rather than spew it forth upon the unwashed masses?

  27. 27.

    Cliff in NH

    @Cliff in NH:

    Ahh, that’s much better, a Clean nice smelling dog, and a non burning face.

    2 fer one you could say.

    Also too, why is it that china keeps raising reserve requirements for banks, but we won’t?

  29. 29.

    Bruce S

    I’m convinced that the great Hamiltonian National Greatness scribe, David Brooks, who wrote the immortal words – “When I interviewed people during the 2000 campaign I found many voters preferred Democratic policies to Republican ones. But they didn’t trust Al Gore because they thought he looked down on them. They felt Bush could come to their barbershop and fit right in” – can find his stride and make it through the coming election cycle.

  30. 30.

    Cliff in NH

    @Cliff in NH:

    China:

    The increase will raise the ratio to a record 21.5 percent for China’s biggest banks and lock up funds that could otherwise be lent out.

    US:

    6-10-11
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley today said regulators shouldn’t “overdo it” on bank rules and Fed examiners shouldn’t be “too tough” on banks.
    __
    Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s chief executive officer, pressed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in a public forum June 7 on whether overzealous regulation of the U.S. banking system may be endangering economic growth. Regulators worldwide are devising new capital requirements following unprecedented government bailouts of financial firms during 2008’s credit crisis.
    __
    “I have a great fear someone’s going to try to write a book in 20 years, and the book is going to talk about all the things that we did in the middle of the crisis to actually slow down recovery,” Dimon told the Fed chairman during a conference of bankers in Atlanta.
    __
    Most SIFIs are better prepared to hold 2 percent of extra capital on top of the 7 percent minimum — for a total of 9 percent — than they are to hold 3 percent, according to a May 6 research note by Bank of America’s Guy Moszkowski.
    __
    “U.S. SIFIs appear to be managing towards 8-9 percent” of core tier-1 capital under Basel III rules, Moszkowski wrote in the May note. “Some investors fear the U.S. may also implement tougher capital targets of 10 percent or higher. We believe this scenario is unlikely.”

  31. 31.

    Sly

    I always thought it fitting that Brooks was a Hamilton fanboy.
    Nobody really liked him, either.

  33. 33.

    Baron Jrod of Keeblershire

    @dollared: Tumblr is just blogging that has following and reblogging (like Twitter) and liking (like Facebook). In other words, it’s the same ol’ shit with a stupid name and hot new media branding. It annoys me that it’s become so popular.

  34. 34.

    befuggled

    @Cliff in NH: I haven’t brewed anything for a couple of years now for various reasons, but I’m an oxyclean/starsan kind of guy myself.

  35. 35.

    BD of MN

    I’m with Cliff, nothing better to clean up the homebrew equipment than Star-San, although I can’t remember ever needing to take a shower after spilling it on myself. I regularly mix it up hot and use a pump to clean out everything, including tap lines…

  36. 36.

    harlana

    Well, Morning Ho is discussing this Brooks’ protest with all appropriate gravitas

  37. 37.

    Linda

    I’ve found a new way to enjoy Brooks’ columns. Don’t actually read them, which fills me with a strange combination of boredom and fury. Instead, go straight to the comments calling him out for his fake reasonabelness/centrism and general bullshit. Alas, nobody commented yet, so everybody else is figuring the same thing I am.

  38. 38.

    Steve M.

    It’s actually not as bad as his usual bilge. It’s the same old unrealistic somewhat-to-the-left-of-the-extreme-right agenda he’s always pushing (cut corporate taxes and fund community colleges!), but he doesn’t drone on and on about character and social capital and all that.

  41. 41.

    Ken

    Doug, you really need to disable your RSS feed if this is the kind of stuff that pops up.

  43. 43.

    Superking

    Reading most of the column, the only real problems are that he tries to create a class of people who are called “Hamiltonians,” and he fails to connect the dots. So, he identifies all the economic stagnation and decline that began in the early 1970s and has continued through today, with a brief period of respite in the 1990s, but then fails to realize that this has been caused by conservative economic policy. Seriously, what happened 30 years ago? Reagan took office. What happened in the early 1970s? Nixon. What happened in the 1990s? Clinton. And in the 2000s? Bush. The economic problems we have are due to conservatives running the show. His prescriptions end up looking a lot like Democratic policy proposals, although he says they’re coming from the Tea Party.

  44. 44.

    Suffern ACE

    @Superking:

    His prescriptions end up looking a lot like Democratic policy proposals, although he says they’re coming from the Tea Party.

    Didn’t Bachman say in the debate or somewhere recently that the tea people are really democrats? Maybe Brooks found her assertion convincing.

  45. 45.

    Cliff in NH

    @BD of MN:

    the brush splattered it all over my face and it gives a nice warm irritated feeling that just doesn’t go away till its washed off, the shower was overkill, but the dog stunk so bad I went with it.

    Now molly is nice and clean and nice smelling (till she rolls in something stinky again) (I also found another tick – in her ear – 4 ticks today for her 5 for me)

  46. 46.

    Cliff in NH

    oh, and I think I had the stuff mixed up stronger than it should have been, it was a saved batch and it had evaporated down quite a bit in addition to being mixed too strong in the first place, all the remainder is going to be used for misc cleaning before being dumped (stingy of me to save the stuff this long but oh well)

  49. 49.

    karen marie

    @Cliff in NH: I hope Molly has been inoculated against Lyme Disease! I don’t know why but word is this is going to be a particularly bad year for ticks.

    The only place I regularly take my Lucy that has ticks is her Sunday play group. The first couple weeks I found several ticks on her after coming home, but none since. I assume whatever tick population hasn’t already been carried off on a dog is going after the big dogs who are there for the first hour.

  53. 53.

    Cliff in NH

    @Cliff in NH:

    20 hours later and the thin skin around my eyes is still sensitive/hot, Don’t mix PBW strong and get it on sensitive skin.

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