http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19brooks.html?hp

Ladies and gentleman, Mr. David Brooks constructs, for your edification, another political homily featuring  such characters as Disingenuous Democratic President(A New Democrat who surrenders before the fight) , The trusting but naïve Speaker of the House John Boehner , The Beltway Bandits(Grover Norquist),  Big Government Blowhards (talk radio jocks), The Show Horses(Palin, Bachman), The Permanent Campaigners( Romney etc.) . He lists the impediments to the pursuit of Conservative Greatness, to reform of the Welfare State, meaning the end of what’s left of The New Deal.  The American Political Melodrama continues as the real fight is between the Tea Party Jacobins and the Wall Street Branch of The Republican Party. Mr. Brooks assures us, at one point, of the fact that he is a ‘reporter’. Now that qualifies as a story.

Political Cynic