David Brooks flaps his jaws again and this time, he's going after his beloved, well-spoken Barack Obama for falling into the same trap as Republican president George W. Bush, except, I don't see the parallel. At all. Here's Brooks:

It's not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That's because the plotline is exactly the same. The party is led by insular liberals from big cities and the coasts, who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates. They have their own cherry-picking pollsters, their own media and activist cocoon, their own plans to lavishly spend borrowed money to buy votes.

Well, that perfectly describes the Senate on both sides, but I don't see how it's the Conservatives controlling anything. In fact, had Republicans stood up for fiscal responsibility, one could argue that an Obama presidency wouldn't have even occurred.

So, President Bush talked God with a cowboy dialect but his actions were all moderation. Hello? AIDs spending in Africa? School reform with Teddy Kennedy? Amnesty? And all these things made the federal government bigger (or would have), more powerful and invasive. The Bush presidency wasn't about restraint and limiting government power--traits I associate with conservatism.

David Brooks and the Beltway elites are delusional. If President Bush governed conservatively, then David Brooks would put nearly every conservative person I know into the Right Wing Extreme camp. No wonder Barack Obama sounded good to him. Obama moderate? Is he insane?

Dan Riehl says of Brooks new found Gah!-Barack-Obama-Is-A-Liberal! Religion:

This is all great. But if Brooks is so smart, where the hell was he during the campaign when the rubes knew what to expect?

Right. David Brooks knows politics. He's smarter than you. And he knows a Moderate when he sees one.