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Soulless demented fish-carcass David Broder has recently discovered why Obama is awful and will fail: “But Obama has made it even more explicit, regularly proclaiming his determination to rely on rational analysis, rather than narrow decisions, on everything from missile defense to Afghanistan — and all the big issues at home.” How calculating that Obama is. This is not the proper way to govern! What he should do instead of “rely[ing] on rational analysis” is take a poop and see which direction it spins, in the toilet. Counter-clockwise would tell him, “build insane untested missile-krusher dongle in Poland.” [Washington Post]
Looks like a “weekend at Bernie’s” thing with the old on the bench. Is that his name pinned
to his shirt in case he wanders off?
“Narrow decisions” is Broder-code for farm animal rape. Don’t judge, just nudge the fudge!
David Broder is overexposed
Shorter Davey: Thinking hurts my feeble mind.
I hate David Broder as much as the next right-thinking human being, but I thought the point of his article was “Obama has good solutions which are getting fucked up by corporate whores like Max Baucus and Kent Conrad.”
So when he’s south of the equator, he gets a different message??
Everyone knows that the best way to govern is to give everyone nicknames and then rely on soulless and utterly evil people to actually run things.
Another courageous defense of expedience as principle.
My god, what’s the average age of WaPo columnists? Like 98?
Spin the dookie sounds more like a “W” thing. Thinking about long term things hasn’t happened in gubmint or bidness for a long long time, maybe it’s time we try it… Nah! Dookie never lies…
I think the article can be summed up in one sentence: “Approaching problems rationally doesn’t work because Congress is filled with corrupt douchebags.” And with that, I cannot disagree.
“Logic” and “Reason” and “whole intelligible sentences” are for chumps. Broder knows the best means of communication and debate are conducted via chest-thumping and feces-flinging, just like in the good old days, back when Broder himself was a furry little homo erectus.
FEER MAI MISSILE KRUSHER DONGLE!
I thought counter-clockwise only told you you were in Australia.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Yes, logical analysis is for pussies. Go from the gut!
Naked Bunny with a Whip: That was my read as well. Plus with the added benefit of having Broder tell Harry Reid to eat a bag of smoky-flavored cancerous dicks.
Missle Krusher Dongle, destined to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology…
norbizness: I know what you mean, but I interpreted his tone as, “This makes Obama naive, for not playing by the rules.” Where else are you supposed to start from, anyway? Should every bill just be introduced, by him, as a special interest giveaway?
Forrest Grump’s momma always told him: “Life is like a box of lightly-salted poison rat dicks. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
norbizness: And also by small-minded parochialists — which is why Dems really need a good wheeler-dealer who can make sure all the minor needs are met without compromising the big picture. Unfortunately most of those people are either dead or in prison — or, like Dan Rostenkowski, one then the other.
How’s that Bush comeback working out, Mr. Dean?
queeraselvis v 2.0: Extemporanus: Mrs. Grump?
Better he should run his office the way the Post does. Fire anyone guilty of a new idea, promote every old geezer who hasn’t been able to find the bathroom since the Nixon Administration, and let Eugene Robinson make all his good points on TV.
@JimNewell: So, to amend my earlier, comment, “Approaching problems rationally doesn’t work because Congress is filled with corrupt douchebags, and Obama is dumb for trying to set a good example.”
It’s much better to ask WWJD and then walk some naked Muslim around on a leash.
/me is plainly hoping to get head-petted by Newell (publicly)
Seriously, man. What is up with Obama expecting Americans, especially American politicians, to actually think about problems? Dude, just give us some money and our super-duper-mega-sized Meal of Death to go and leave us alone. Dr. Phil is on.
Thanks David, but we’re all filled up with contributions from the Greatest Generation. You may now retire. Take the other olds with you please.
And the place must reek. You got Broder and Cohen with that “old man smell”, Krauthamer’s c-bag, and the inevitable whiff of douche around Kristol. Plus lots and lots of farts.
The reason, Schambra says, is that this highly rational, comprehensive approach fits uncomfortably with the Constitution, which apportions power among so many different players — If it weren’t for that “Constitution” thing politics would be so much more rational. Wasn’t that the political thinking behind the Turner Diaries? America is great but let’s throw away the Constitution and government and social order and allow America to be really great…
“Obama — a highly intelligent product of elite universities — is far from the first Democratic president to subscribe to this approach. Jimmy Carter, and especially Bill Clinton, attempted to govern this way.” …unlike the Bushes who are also products of elite universities but who could in no way be described as highly intelligent, Reagan, who was neither well-educated nor intelligent, or Nixon who went to Duke for law and was intelligent in an evil way. Eisenhower was probably pretty intelligent, and went to West Point fwiw.
sittin outside the old folks home, thinkin bout the gibmint…
I played Spin the Dookie as a kid. Always ended up french kissing a turd. Only later did I learn I wuz doin’ it rong.
teebob2000: Same message, they just put a different spin on it.
I think want Broder is calling for is somebody who doesn’t spend hours thinking about policy but somebody who feels what good policy would be and act upon it. Somebody who listens to their gut about what to do and makes decisions. Yeah, what Broder thinks we need isn’t a brain wonk, but….a Decider!
Look, real men use only two guides for making decisions: their gut and their lengthy conversations with God. Sometimes, when they’re not focusing on the right things, God uses their gut to converse with them, but that’s a story for another day.
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/20090901_Schambra_Fall09.pdf
Obama and the Policy Approach - William Schambra
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Worth reading. Provides the conservative intellectual underpinings for Glenda’s rants, and even tosses in a mention about William Ayers and Barry’s “bitters/guns/religion” comment.
One of the choice quotes: “Progressive reformers throughout the 20th century came to denigrate the wisdom and relevance of the American Constitution …”.
Long/short:
1. Barry is an elitist
2. Doesn’t trust the common people and the messay political process to get things right.
3. Want’s egghead policy czars to run the country.
Jim Newell: Knowing Broder, if that isn’t the text, it’s the likely subtext. I don’t even want to know what his Fundamentals of Governance power point presentation would look like, but I imagine it goes something like this…
Marge: I think Bart and Lisa are feeling a little upset right now. Isn’t there something you’d like to say?
Homer: There sure is. Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
dubya made decisions based on his “gut” feelings…..since his brain is under-developed.
sometimes he heard voices claiming to be from “god” that told him to invade iraq.
Progressive reformers throughout the 20th century came to denigrate the wisdom and relevance of the American Constitution
By “denigrate” I think he means “take to its logical conclusion by maximizing rights and equality”. But potayto/potahto….
Hahaha…he looks like the old dude who was riding around the parking lot of my local grocery store real slow with a handmade sign hanging off the driver side door with (and I quote) “Wake up america Obama lies”.
@lochnessmonster: Even Washington Post columnists need a hobby.
inedalo:
There is the “gut feeling” George:
- - “Hurricanes, justa a spot of intense moist weather. Poor people know how to swim. It comes natural. Ignore.”
– “Any evil dictator must have WMDs.” (Dick Cheney and the head of Lehman Brothers excluded.)
– Blow off pre-9/11 intelligence warning that Osama might use planes to attack the US. (“Who cares what some Illinois state politician might try to do? Pass the gin and pretzels.”)
inedalo:
And them there is the ‘policy’ GWB:
- Regulation of business bad, four legs good.
- ‘Old Europe’ bite me.
- Give tax breaks to the richies. (Also known as “Supply Side Economics”.)
- Support of the Anti-Baby Slaughters and oppose stem cell research.
- Ban the gayism of holy matrimony.
- Invasion of a Middle-Eastern country will bring democracy everywhere (except Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, the Emirates, Kuwait, Texas, etc.)
- “The Ownership Society”
- Take many vacations and cut brush.
Broder, can you spare the slime?
@lochnessmonster: –What a stupid old fart! It should have been: “Wake UP ameriKa orr Obama cries!”
Stupid old sod can’t even write a good blacmail note.
Oh, Miss Davy, yesterday, while you was out visitin’, I went and ate a can of your salmon. Now, I know you said eat the left-over pork chops, but they was kinda stiff. So, I stopped at the Whole Foods and got you another can.
You want me just to go on and put it in the cupboard?
I guess Broder wants Obama to turn into Harvey Dent/Two-Face (Billy Dee never got the chance…) as POTUS?
Stone cold flip a coin, muthafucka!
MISSILES WE KRUSH! Grind them to Dust.
Broder digest logic and spit out mush!
So, Mr. Broder’s strategy, in preference to rationally devising ways to address complex problems, would be what? My own guess, after reading Broder over the years, is that whatever approach leads to friendly witty chatter among his many friends at the better dinner parties in Washington would best suit him. It would do nothing useful for the country, but the from cocktails to dessert he and his friends can congratulate themselves on their wisdom and insight. None of them has cared about anyone outside the beltway (or most of those inside, for that matter) since they were in diapers, but so what? Irrelevant.
inedalo: All that nonsense about “gut” decisions was cover for an agenda that consisted of invade foreign countries, take their resources, cut taxes on the rich, throw table scraps to the nutjobs.
Bush never made a decision in his entire Presidency. He was nothing more than a hand-operated puppet.