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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute / Wolverines, come out to play

Wolverines, come out to play

by DougJ|  January 23, 20135:46 pm| 51 Comments

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I’ll be rooting for whatever winger goes mano a mano with Bobo in this fight for the soul of the Republican party.

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  1. 1.

    imonlylurking

    January 23, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    Does Bobo have empty glass bottles on his fingers?

  2. 2.

    taylormattd

    January 23, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    Oh god.

  3. 3.

    eemom

    January 23, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    The Warriors? Splendiforous!

  4. 4.

    scav

    January 23, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    Might even be a safe bet at this stage of the game. Haven’t I seen those generic hypotheticals winning before?

  5. 5.

    penpen

    January 23, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    I would actually attend this.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    January 23, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    sounds like someone is going to take them out to the sand……

    and then they’ll wonder, is THIS what they fought all night for? a trampy Sarah Palin (doing Deborah Van Valkenburg 30 years later) and a disastrous GOP Party (Coney Island). Although I do think that Rand Paul would make a perfect Luther and perhaps you could cast Cantor as Vermin. I just cant see Rincypoo as Cyrus tho….

  7. 7.

    p.a.

    January 23, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    Seize the center? They can’t even spell ‘center’. Just die already.

  8. 8.

    eemom

    January 23, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    Also too, did you ever notice Tarantino’s nod to that film in Pulp Fiction? In the “Son of A Preacher Man” scene when Uma Thurman speaks into the microphone.

  9. 9.

    gocart mozart

    January 23, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    No link to Bobo? What did he say. Doug don’t go Galt on us. Get out of the boat and report back so we don’t have to. That’s why you make the big bucks.

  10. 10.

    beltane

    January 23, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    As a professional wanker, David Brooks should have no problem taking himself on in this battle.

  11. 11.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    January 23, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    @eemom: Have you ever seen the Cyrus/Obama clip? It’s one of my favorites. Can you DIG IT! : )

  12. 12.

    nickgb

    January 23, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    I just hope David Duke or a Westboro Baptist member sign up. It’ll be like one of those Onion “Opposing Viewpoint” editorials. “The GOP must seize the center or die” vs. “The GOP must become a Fourth Reich or die!”

  13. 13.

    kindness

    January 23, 2013 at 5:59 pm

    Makin’ popcorn. Pull the chairs around.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    January 23, 2013 at 6:00 pm

    I vote die.

  15. 15.

    Doug Galt

    January 23, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    @eemom:

    Yes!

  16. 16.

    gocart mozart

    January 23, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    nevermind.

  17. 17.

    JPL

    January 23, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    Doug, You could be on of the TBA. Pretty please.

  18. 18.

    El Cid

    January 23, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    Center seat in the movies? Center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    January 23, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    I like the “or die” option for the GOP.

  20. 20.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 23, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    Rush. And not only will he win, he may never even know Brooks challenged him. Whenever you ask if the GOP will tack back to the center, ask ‘Who will the base listen to, this guy or Rush Limbaugh?’

  21. 21.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    January 23, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    They really are dumb. They’re fighting over something that they already sold to the devil.

  22. 22.

    piratedan

    January 23, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    well I also have to admit, that Barry DeVorzon music still kicks ass today.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    January 23, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    @Baud:

    I vote die.

    This. Preferably as soon as possible.

  24. 24.

    tworivers

    January 23, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    Live at the Applebee’s Salad Bar:

    Bobo v. Cantor

  25. 25.

    Violet

    January 23, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    Is that a GOP elephant dead in the cracks of a dried up mud flat? Seriously?

  26. 26.

    Citizen_X

    January 23, 2013 at 6:08 pm

    Will they be allowed to bring AR-15s to this event? You know, for Tree-of-Liberty watering and the like.

  27. 27.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    January 23, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    The GOP should change its symbol from an elephant to a woolly mammoth.

  28. 28.

    SatanicPanic

    January 23, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    Rooting for injuries

  29. 29.

    Violet

    January 23, 2013 at 6:11 pm

    Okay, I went to the website for the “Intelligence Squared” organization that is hosting this crap. Their header has a quote about them from the Wall St. Journal: “Always intelligent and provocative, as well as disciplined and civil.” If you asked Bobo, Sully, Frum, etc. to write their own epitaph, that’s exactly what they would come up with.

  30. 30.

    El Cid

    January 23, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    At least some people are pretty good at acting like the Soul of the Republican Party is some sort of desirable thing rather than something closer to inheriting an old bag of barf.

  31. 31.

    The Dangerman

    January 23, 2013 at 6:13 pm

    @p.a.:

    They can’t even spell ‘center’.

    They might be able to do so if you spot them the consonants.

    C_NT_R

    Oh, fuck, they’d think that was ‘Cantor’.

    Nevermind.

  32. 32.

    Citizen_X

    January 23, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann: I wanna see Obama say “CAN. YOU. DIG IT?” at a rally before I vote for him a third time.

    (PS: Let’s make “Obama/Biden 2016” bumper stickers, just to fuck with the wingnuts.)

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    January 23, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    Oh, fuck, they’d think that was ‘Cantor’.

    Well, Cantor was very interested in diagonals, which are kind of like the center.

  34. 34.

    Steve M.

    January 23, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    I’m surprised Doughy Pantload hasn’t signed on. His mom lives within walking distance. (Well, walking distance for people with sub-400 cholesterol.)

  35. 35.

    jl

    January 23, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    Is the title shorthand for ‘The GOP must seize the center and strangle it in a bathtub or die?’

  36. 36.

    srv

    January 23, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    Doug,

    You are really wasting your digerati skills – I suggest you get on FB Graph and do a search for “Likes a Bobo post” AND [insert obminable belief]

  37. 37.

    scav

    January 23, 2013 at 6:25 pm

    @The Dangerman:
    don’t give up so easily, you may be onto something. No We Can’t! or No We Cant!

    cant 2 (knt)
    n.
    1. Monotonous talk filled with platitudes.
    2. Hypocritically pious language.
    3. The special vocabulary peculiar to the members of an underworld group; argot.
    4. Cant See Shelta.
    5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
    6. The special terminology understood among the members of a profession, discipline, or class but obscure to the general population; jargon. See Synonyms at dialect.
    intr.v. cant·ed, cant·ing, cants
    1. To speak tediously or sententiously; moralize.
    2. To speak in argot or jargon.
    3. To speak in a whining, pleading tone.

    plus the tilty thing, especialy viv-a-vis the playing field.

  38. 38.

    gbear

    January 23, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    Has anyone pointed out that today is National Pie Day yet? Cleek?

  39. 39.

    Bokonon

    January 23, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    What… you mean, following Bill Bennett’s brave new plan to simply seize control of the movie studios and universities, and change the way that our youth are indoctinated to think … that won’t succeed??

    This is interesting, because lots of the GOP’s efforts are aimed at changing PERCEPTIONS of their policies rather than actually changing the policies themselves. Finding the correct smiling pitch man. The new buzz word. The new advertisement. Rebranding. The next culture war episode.

    And when all else fails? Gerrymander the hell out of the voting public.

    If Brooks is really asking for more than window dressing, spin, and political hardball, then good for him. Although I doubt that he is offering this argument in good faith.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 23, 2013 at 6:33 pm

    @imonlylurking: Does Bobo have empty glass bottles on his fingers?

    God, I love that scene, only with Bobo and X, I think it will look more like the ‘cat fight’ on Cheers between Woody’s girlfriend Kelly and a pre-friends Lisa Kudrow

    Kelly; “You stay away from my man or I’ll… I’lll… HURT YOUR FEELINGS!”
    Pre-F LK: “I’ll hurt yours right back!”

    Remember when little Richie Lowry called liberals wimps, and a pre-Senate (post Harvard wrestling team) Al Franken offered to take him on, any time, any place?

  41. 41.

    Roger Moore

    January 23, 2013 at 6:51 pm

    @gbear:
    We have a National Pie Day related event at work. That said, I must object. Everyone knows that Pi day is March 14.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 23, 2013 at 6:53 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Everyone knows that Pi day is March 14.

    It is known.

  43. 43.

    Ash Can

    January 23, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    I’ll be rooting for whatever winger goes mano a mano with Bobo…

    I’ll be rooting for a murder-suicide.

  44. 44.

    22over7

    January 23, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It is known.

  45. 45.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    January 23, 2013 at 7:21 pm

    I’m guessing this whole debate will go by without anyone actually defining “center.”

  46. 46.

    Jay C

    January 23, 2013 at 8:15 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Everyone knows that Pi day is March 14.

    And is there a moment of silence at 1:59??

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 23, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    @Citizen_X:

    (

    PS: Let’s make “Obama/Biden 2016″ bumper stickers, just to fuck with the wingnuts.)

    Double-checking my Café Press password even as we type.

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 23, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    Speaking of pie, colossally snarky Charlie Pierce is colossally snarky:

    The next time “Bobby” Jindal, governor of Louisiana and warped slab of putative Republican presidential timber, gets up in public and tells an audience how much Jesus really means to him, he should be hit in the face with a pie full of eels.

    That’s just great stuff. Ninety-seven out of 100 columnists would have written “cream pie” or “custard pie” or some variant thereof, but “a pie full of eels”? That’s fcking inspired.

  49. 49.

    danielx

    January 23, 2013 at 9:19 pm

    Betcherass that there will be no elected Republican who will publicly agree with Bobo’s position…

  50. 50.

    brad

    January 23, 2013 at 11:28 pm

    I’m half tempted to buy a ticket, since I still have a student id that appears recent and valid. Let’s see who else ends up booked. If Loadpants gets in on this I might have to subject myself.

  51. 51.

    de stijl

    January 24, 2013 at 6:19 am

    Everyone knows that Pi day is March 14.

    The problem with Pi day is that it just seems to go on forever and ever.

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