Friday, March 19, 2010

Uh - what?

I love David Brooks, he's more in the WFB school of conservatism and usually strikes a great balance between the rabid liberalism of the Times and the idiotic spiel of the Fox News crowd.

However, it feels like he mailed this one in. While I'm sure Phillip Blond is a great guy, the ideas that Brooks distills seem incredibly non-specific - push power to front-line civil servants - what the hell does that mean exactly? Some life-based examples that have worked would be great.

On the eve of the most contentious legislation to emerge in Congress in 50 years, Brooks is strangely silent on HCR, after making great arguments against it all week. I would have expected a reasoned assault to continue - I feel as though I've been cheated.

in reference to: Op-Ed Columnist - The Broken Society - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

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