David Brooks : A Competent Conservative (re:John Roberts)

[Wetzelbill]

I didn't know Brooks become a comedian. This is fuckin' hilarious material! Move over Al Franken we got a new comedic satirist in town! Wait....he is serious about this shit? :puke:

A Competent Conservative
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: July 21, 2005

Roberts nomination, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee with the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee because this is the way government is supposed to work. President Bush consulted widely, moved beyond the tokenism of identity politics and selected a nominee based on substance, brains, careful judgment and good character.

I love thee because John G. Roberts is the face of today's governing conservatism.

Conservatives who came of age in the 1960's did so in an intensely ideological time when it was arduous to be on the right. People from that generation are more likely to have a dissident mentality, to want to storm the ramparts of the liberal establishment, to wade in to vanquish their foes in the war of ideas.

But John Roberts didn't enter Harvard until the fall of 1973. He missed all that sturm und drang, so he lacks, his former colleagues say, the outsider/dissident mentality. By the time he came of age, it was easier for a conservative to be comfortable in mainstream institutions, without feeling embattled or spoiling for a fight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/opinion/21brooks.html?hp

[indepat]

1. That's one competent conservative: will another surface this generation?

[K-W]

2. Bite me David Brooks. EOM

[5X]

3. david brooks is rush limpuke in a suit n/t

[Wetzelbill]

4. but his words are so pretty!

:sarcasm: