David
Brooks, the New York Times token "conservative Republican" (you and me
are right wing terrorists) wins this year's "worst op-ed" award.
I
happened to read, or start to read, this very column last week, but was
unable to force my way past Francis
Fukuyama. The Washington Examiner's Gene Healy did get
through it, and has bestowed upon it this year's "worst
op-ed" award.
It
might strike you as counterintuitive to imagine that a president with a
drone fleet, a “kill list,” dragnet databases of Americans' personal
information and increasingly arbitrary authority over health care's
one-sixth of the U.S. economy has too little power -- but that's how
you know you're in the presence of an original thinker.
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We suffer from “reform stagnation,” Brooks laments. It's too hard to
push through “immigration reform, tax reform, entitlement reform and
gun legislation” via the archaic "Schoolhouse Rock!" method outlined in
Article I of the Constitution. [Gene Healy]
The thing is, all you have to do is visit
Newsbusters
to find, on a daily basis, a dozen better candidates for written or
spoken nincompoopery (Barbara
Walters Warmly Recalls Holding Fidel Castro's Gun In Her Lap). Just
stab me in the liver, and be done with it.
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