DAVID BROOKS: GET UP!
IT’S SCOTT BROOKS’ TIME!

Slublog, at Hot Air’s Green Room, takes the NY Times’ supposed conservative, David Brooks, to task for using “a thoughtful, pragmatic administration marked by a culture of honest and vigorous debate” as a descriptor for Obama’s first year.

What else Brooks said: “If the evidence leads him in directions he finds uncomfortable, he will still follow the evidence. He is beholden to no ideological camp, and there is no group in his political base that he has not angered at some point in his first year.”

While we totally disagree with about 90% of what Brooks write above, Brooks has an awakening of sorts when, in the same piece, he warns Obama/Reid/Pelosi of the political dangers in trying to jam health care down Americans’ throats–by tricks.

After listing myriad reasons why Brooks’ Obama is a Fantasy Action Figure, Slublog sums up the NY Times columnist’s first, tiny efforts at opening his eyes.

David Brooks and the Real President:

…these stories do not paint a picture of a president interested in “honest and vigorous” debate, and the arguments of those who may disagree with him. His actions on healthcare alone suggest not one who puts evidence-based pragmatism ahead of ideology. It’s time for Brooks to bury his Fantasy Obama and face reality – he was suckered.

Why is it that every time one of the superscary-smart “elites” discovered what has been apparent to most ordinary Americans, they get either praise for having an epiphany–or in Brooks’ case, the benefit of the doubt for being “suckered”?

It’s much more accurate to say that Brooks–and every single member of these so-called “elites” that required an election in Massachusetts to serve as an alarm clock–was ‘self-suckered’.

Because when you’re superscary-smart, you can perform self-suckerification so much better than the little people on whom you deign to shower opinions.

NOTE: The lowdown on David Brooks’ alarm clock–Brown’s Win and Obama’s Iraq

NOTE: Saw this at Ace, I believe, last night. But have pulled a blank when trying to run down exactly where I saw it. Enjoy!