brooks also wrote for the Atlantic, which is decidly not a neo-con publication. and of copurse the new york times, which is as non neo-con as is possible.
your propensity to place people in cubby holes ("neo-cons by and large are horrible on economics") when not so cut and dry reveals a desire to simplify.
know what? it isn't so simple....
government taxation is waging "war" on its citizens?
your weathervane points decidedly towards anarchy, which is neither positive nor realist, and in fact reveals a certain pessimistic vein in your thinking.
anarchist are by and large anti-social personalities who prefer to vacate the contract that civilized societies operate under.
anarchists are really no different than many psychopathic personalities (ted kaczynski?) who feel animosity towards others, and wish to excuse themselves from limitations which are placed upon us by our mutual desire to live together in an orderly society.
and david brooks was not "last seen advising the Republicans that going to war in Iraq was a grand idea", he was last seen advising republicans that having sarah palin on the ticket was a bad idea, and he was right on that.
and he is also right in advising republicans that being the party of "just say no" to any action addressing our current economic malaise is political hari kari.
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