Insane Bullshit | David Brooks Strikes Again

It's confirmed. All evidence unmistakably indicates that David Brooks is, at once, both completely crazy and a total fucking duchebag.

Case in point: Today's befalling harangue against, ostensibly, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and the Roe v Wade decision... the reality, however, is that Brooks has larger nuts to crack... unfortunately, he never focuses the nut cracking in on himself; the inner psychic gobbledygook that fuels this thing, David Brooks, would be a much more interesting story to tell.

What we get, instead, is this kind of loopy bullshit:

Religious conservatives became alienated from their own government, feeling that their democratic rights had been usurped by robed elitists. Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views. The parties polarized as they each became dominated by absolutist activists.

[emphasis mine]

There are several cockamamie assertions and false assumptions at work in just this small portion of his column today.

First, Brooks asserts that somehow, by acknowledging that more than half of all American citizens (namely, women) have a right to do what they feel is best for their own health without the government having a say in matters... that by having to actually make that legal (how could it be otherwise in a "free" society?) the Supreme Court ("robe elitists"), Blackmun in particular, had somehow stripped the Constitutional rights from another large segment of Americans: Religious Conservatives. You've got to be shitting me! Where in the Constitution is it written that religious fuck-wads have the right to impose their crackpot views on other citizens? Brooks' statement is a little like saying that the Emancipation Proclamation is unconstitutional because it stripped white southern males of their Constitutional right to own human beings. What the fuck?

Secondly, Brooks writes that "Liberals" (look out! it's the liberals again!) lost touch with the values of "working-class" Americans over this issue because the Liberals were too stubborn to listen to other people's views. Many things wrong here, but the big one is that Brooks assumes that this ill-defined segment he calls working-class all believe that abortion should be outlawed. I mean... come on Dave... let's get serious. But the last bit is worse: He blatantly asserts that Liberals rely on the courts to "impose their views". So, what's DeLay up to as we speak? He's set out on an aggressive campaign to force the judiciary to fall in line with his hard-right views!

Maybe Liberals do "rely" on the courts to impose their lefty views... I think not... but today's GOP are attempting to impose their views on the courts! and that my friends is a breach of power. It is also un-Constitutional.

Holy Moses! You should read the whole ragged argument for yourself. It's pretty nauseating, but with the right amount of booze it might also be good for a few laughs.