David Brooks has a Vision

He wrote about it in that Big City New York Paper:

A Tax Reform Vision

Published: December 2, 2010

I have a vision.
...

See?

Yeah, well

I have a vision too.

In David Brooks' vision, President Obama behaves like a imperturbable saint and tells everyone to shut up while he reinvents the U.S. tax code, after which all the equally naughty Democrats and Republicans stop behaving naughtily and quiet down until he is down.

Then everyone follows his beacon of Pragmatic Tax Centrism into the light.

"The tax reform process would reintroduce the parties to each other, and reduce the Manichean caricatures that have built up in their heads."

Yeah, because the real problem with the Right is not the aggressively and premeditatedly ruthless, merciless, reckless and often sociopathic way they actually act -- and have acted for decades -- but merely the Left's kooky caricature of them.

In my vision, the New York Times goes out of the maudlin Centrist claptrap business, stops putting 800-word embarrassments like this on the editorial page of America's paper of record, and Mr. Brooks retires to a quiet life of McDonalds assistant-managerhood where he spends the rest of his years boring high school girls with tales of how he almost didn't get everything he ever believed completely fucking wrong.

And why not?

"Visions" are cheap, and apparently in some professions -- like journalism -- there are absolutely no career downsides for getting them completely and hilariously wrong.

Over and over and over again.


UPDATE: Yes, I did leave my helpful suggestions in Mr. Brooks' comment section last night.

And, yes, they seem to have disappeared into digital heaven.

Well, I'm sure they're in a better place now. No more tears, little comments! Now you can laugh and play in Snarkylysium with other comments forever.

Socialist Mastermind Demands

American economy be destroyed, jobs obliterated, citizens enslaved.

From Marketplace Public Radio:

Greenspan: Let Bush-era tax cuts expire

Congressmen of both parties are debating whether to end or extend the Bush-era tax cuts, but for former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, the answer is clear: Let the Bush cuts run their course and raise taxes, so the government can get a handle on the deficit.

Alan Greenspan: worse than 11 George Soroses.

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