NYT Rube David Brooks Admits "I'm an Obama Sap"

Another rube dumb enough to have been taken in by hopey changey id off the Hopeium and now has buyers remorse: Obama Rejects Obamaism

Brooks - another rube self identifies

I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.

When the president said the unemployed couldn’t wait 14 more months for help and we had to do something right away, I believed him. When administration officials called around saying that the possibility of a double-dip recession was horrifyingly real and that it would be irresponsible not to come up with a package that could pass right away, I believed them.

I liked Obama’s payroll tax cut ideas and urged Republicans to play along. But of course I’m a sap. When the president unveiled the second half of his stimulus it became clear that this package has nothing to do with helping people right away or averting a double dip. This is a campaign marker, not a jobs bill.

It recycles ideas that couldn’t get passed even when Democrats controlled Congress. In his remarks Monday the president didn’t try to win Republicans to even some parts of his measures. He repeated the populist cries that fire up liberals but are designed to enrage moderates and conservatives.

He claimed we can afford future Medicare costs if we raise taxes on the rich. He repeated the old half-truth about millionaires not paying as much in taxes as their secretaries. (In reality, the top 10 percent of earners pay nearly 70 percent of all income taxes, according to the I.R.S. People in the richest 1 percent pay 31 percent of their income to the federal government while the average worker pays less than 14 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office.)

This wasn’t a speech to get something done. This was the sort of speech that sounded better when Ted Kennedy was delivering it. The result is that we will get neither short-term stimulus nor long-term debt reduction anytime soon, and I’m a sap for thinking it was possible.

And it only took him some 4 years since Obama began his campaign to figure this out?  Brooks isn't just a rube, he's a dense one to boot. Via memeorandum. More from Michelle Malkin, The Heritage Foundation, Hugh Hewitt, Betsy's Page, Campaign 2012, Ann Althouse, The Other McCain, Maggie's Farm, Ben Smith, Left Coast Rebel and American Spectator

NYT to packing urban cities with people like sardines: it's your density!

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get plied upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

The NYT's packing program for people in failed urban environments (run by Democrats):

What else to make of this?: One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities

...when it comes to economic growth and the creation of jobs, the denser the city the better.

How great are the benefits of density? Economists studying cities routinely find that after controlling for other variables, workers in denser places earn higher wages and are more productive. Some studies suggest that doubling density raises productivity by around 6 percent while others peg the impact at up to 28 percent. Some economists have concluded that more than half the variation in output per worker across the United States can be explained by density alone; density explains more of the productivity gap across states than education levels or industry concentrations or tax policies.

And Ryan Avent is correct for the year '11. Well, 1811. Not 2011. There is such a thing as the internet and people do communicate around the globe now in an instant. But setting that aside, how's that population concentration in urban environments working out for Europe? They are more concentrated than we are here in the US. How come they have been in a multi-decade economic stagnation? It's not the economy, it's the liberal Utopian idea that packing people into urban environments forces you to depend on others for your very survival, much moreso than people living on their own plot of land. And if they can be trained to depend on other people, than surely they can be trained to depend on Big Government. Democratic Party vote windfall ensues. Thanks but no thanks. There is a good reason people have been fleeing concentrated urban environments like Detroit. I'm with Jefferson on this one. Get out of the urban environment that tends to go corrupt. Live in the country and breath the free air.

Obama's A "Rhetorical & Substantive Failure" Says... NYT's Frank Rich!

The don't come any more liberal than Rich, but even he is off the Hopeium:

Surprising that it only took him some 3 1/2 year, 3 million jobs, and $4 trillion in debt to take the red pill and see the reality for what it is.

Andrew Klavan Video: Rules for Wannabe Pundits

Heh:

I especially like Rule#2. Krugman in a tinfoil hat was a nice touch as well.