Neocon mouthpiece David Brooks demands overturn of Roe v. Wade >

[Stephanie]

So this is what's next on the neocon agenda? They want to seal the deal with the fundies by actually overturning Roe v. Wade?

Very glad that I cancelled the New York Times, if they are going to facilitate the war on women by printing the radical rightist views of the assinine David Brooks.

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Roe's Birth, and Death
By DAVID BROOKS

Published: April 21, 2005

Justice Harry Blackmun did more inadvertent damage to our democracy than any other 20th-century American. When he and his Supreme Court colleagues issued the Roe v. Wade decision, they set off a cycle of political viciousness and counter-viciousness that has poisoned public life ever since, and now threatens to destroy the Senate as we know it.

When Blackmun wrote the Roe decision, it took the abortion issue out of the legislatures and put it into the courts. If it had remained in the legislatures, we would have seen a series of state-by-state compromises reflecting the views of the centrist majority that's always existed on this issue. These legislative compromises wouldn't have pleased everyone, but would have been regarded as legitimate.

Instead, Blackmun and his concurring colleagues invented a right to abortion, and imposed a solution more extreme than the policies of just about any other comparable nation.

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The fact is, the entire country is trapped. Harry Blackmun and his colleagues suppressed that democratic abortion debate the nation needs to have. The poisons have been building ever since. You can complain about the incivility of politics, but you can't stop the escalation of conflict in the middle. You have to kill it at the root. Unless Roe v. Wade is overturned, politics will never get better.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/21/opinion/21brooks.html?oref=login

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[Fenris]

1. His entire argument for repealing R v. W is absolutely ridiculous.

[On Par]

2. Some Insight To Brooks....

Boo-Boos in Paradise
by Sasha Issenberg

"Wayne-bred David Brooks is the public intellectual of the moment. But our writer found out he doesn't check his facts."

"Brooks, an agile and engaging writer, was doing what he does best, bringing sweeping social movements to life by zeroing in on what Tom Wolfe called "status detail," those telling symbols -- the Weber Grill, the open-toed sandals with advanced polymer soles -- that immediately fix a person in place, time and class. Through his articles, a best-selling book, and now a twice-a-week column in what is arguably journalism's most prized locale, the New York Times op-ed page, Brooks has become a must-read, charming us into seeing events in the news through his worldview.

There's just one problem: Many of his generalizations are false. According to Amazon.com sales data, one of Goodwin's strongest markets has been deep-Red McAllen, Texas. That's probably not, however, QVC country. "I would guess our audience would skew toward Blue areas of the country," says Doug Rose, the network's vice president of merchandising and brand development. "Generally our audience is female suburban baby boomers, and our business skews towards affluent areas." Rose's standard PowerPoint presentation of the QVC brand includes a map of one zip code -- Beverly Hills, 90210 -- covered in little red dots that each represent one QVC customer address, to debunk "the myth that they're all little old ladies in trailer parks eating bonbons all day."

more...http://www.phillymag.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=350

[Stephanie]

3. He worked for William Kristol at the Weekly Standard

That's all I need to know about him - he's a neocon LIAR, as he has proved over and over again.

[ClintonTyree]

4. What a turd....

"Instead, Blackmun and his concurring colleagues invented a right to abortion, and imposed a solution more extreme than the policies of just about any other comparable nation".

WRONG, IDIOT! They DID NOT "invent a right to abortion". What they did was guarantee a woman's right to choose. You fundie assholes reframe the wording to suit your position and would take that guarantee away in a second, if you could.

Old men, making decisions about what young women should do with their bodies. David Brooks would be the first to get an abortion if males were to get pregnant. Shut your stupid, right wing, theocratic, ignorant mouth you fetid turd. :grr:

[progressivejazz]

5. Not to worry.

The Repubs won't be overturning Roe v. Wade. They want to talk about it. That will please their base. They want to weaken it incrementally, state by state. That will please their base. But they won't overturn it.

If they did, the backlash would overturn them. They know this.

[johnaries]

7. No, it's their biggist fund raising platform. There's no way they would

allow it be overturned and lose that fund raising potential revenue.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Oh...he must be "education and explaining" to the public

(See my thread on Luntz's phraseology for manipulation)

The issue was privacy, which is why it went before the Supreme Court.

Another activist journalist. :grr:

[Enraged_Ape]

8. Oh, so David Brooks has a uterus now?

Don't see how he has a dog in this fight.

In other words, he should STFU.