Deep Thoughts From David Brooks

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Below I bought you today's Deep Thoughts from Tom Friedman.  Once again from the amazing grasp of the obvious department I bring deep thoughts from David Brooks:

BROOKS: The problem with them and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan. They are stuck with the idea that government is always the problem. A lot of Republicans up in Capitol Hill right now are calling for a spending freeze in a middle of a recession/depression. That is insane. But they are thinking the way they thought in 1982, if we can only think that way again, that is just insane.

As Steve Benen points out they may want to go back to 1982 but they don't even remember what really happened,