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Quote Of The Day

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Quotes, Republicans

“This is a bit of an inside baseball observation, but it’s becoming clear that the columnist with the best access to the White House is, improbably, David Brooks.”
- Ezra Klein in The American Prospect

Here’s more…

In itself, that’s not abnormal. Administrations often choose themselves a favored columnist to bless with access and exclusives. But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that a White House has chosen a columnist of the opposite party to serve in that role.

If this is true, well, that certainly puts the lie to the idea that this administration is anything like the last. Because inviting a columnist into the tent to essentially provide the opposing viewpoint is unheard of.

I’m just saying…

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5 Responses to “Quote Of The Day”

Alistair Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I don’t know if I would consider David Brooks as a true conservative, even though he supported some of Bush’s policies in the war Iraq he was at times critical of Bush and many of his cabinet members.
Smooth Jazz Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
How does being critical of Bush make one not a conservative? The GOP has totally thrown Bush under the bus. Is the GOP not conservative?
ExiledIndependent Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
But as long as the administration can say, “Hey, some of my best friends are conservatives!” they can still propagate the bipartisan meme.
Chris Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I would say that Bush threw the GOP under the bus lol….
Thurston Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Brooks is almost Wm F Buckley-erudite. No intelligent, highly educated person who reads and writes can be a true Bush Conservative or a neo-con. Anyone with an appreciation for complexity and nuance would find that impossible. We have but to listen to two minutes of Limbaugh to know that.

Bush Conservatism was about simple solutions and appealing to widely held, unexamined assumptions about how the world works — especially the other 95% of it that lies beyond American shores, which Bush never visited until he took office.

As for being a “true Conservative,” well, mercifully that term is still being redefined, isn’t it?

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