THE LOW POST: The Mansion Family:
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on August 5th, 2006 9:32 am by HL
THE LOW POST: The Mansion Family:
In the first installment of his weekly Web-only column, Matt Taibbi writes that yuppie paranoia (and David Brooks) guarantees the Democrats are still — and forever — doomed.
Rolling Stone
Excerpt
Brooks is the perfect priest of American conservatism, and by conservatism I don’t mean the bloodthirsty, gun-toting, go-back-to-Africa, welfare-bashing right-winger conservatism of the NRA and Sean Hannity and the Bible Belt. I mean the dickless, power-worshipping, good-consumer pragmatic conservatism of Times readers and those other Bobos in Paradise who have exquisitely developed taste in furniture, coffee and television programming but would rather leave the uglier questions of politics to more decisive people, so long as they aren’t dangerous radicals like Michael Moore or Markos Zuniga.
That’s why the marriage of David Brooks and the Democratic Leadership Council makes perfect sense. It’s repugnant and the kind of thing one should shield young children from knowing about, but it makes perfect sense.
