It's not the greatest video, but hey, such is life on YouTube. :) Seriously, though, I think it's worth posting this - from Sunday's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on ABC - just for the pleasure of watching a leading conservative writer (David Brooks of the NY Times) blast the Republican Party's response to the horrendous economic mess we're in (after 8 years of Republican misrule). Below is the transcript of what Brooks had to say on Sunday. Also, see Brooks' column this morning, in which he calls the Republican response to the economic crisis "totally misguided" and "completely inappropriate." David Brooks will certainly get no argument here, but I definitely wonder what Eric Cantor, Bob McDonnell and Bill Bolling think of all this (my guess is that they think saying "no" to everything is a brilliant idea).
The problem with them and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan," Brooks said during an appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "They are stuck with the idea that government is always the problem. A lot of Republicans up in Capitol Hill right now are calling for a spending freeze in a middle of a recession/depression. That is insane. But they are thinking the way they thought in 1982, if we can only think that way again, that is just insane. And there are a lot of Republicans like David Frum ... who are trying to say Reagan was right for his era, but it is time to move on. And there are just not a lot of them on Capitol Hill right now, and I think the party is looking for that kind of Republican.
