David Brooks turns on Obama: ‘There’s a little arrogance and self-superiority there’

[Geee]

Daily Caller:

After Friday night’s presidential press conference, even one of the left’s favorite conservatives is scratching his head at President Barack Obama’s demeanor.

New York Times columnist David Brooks, who once praised Obama for the crease in his pants, said he was upset with Obama for being angry in public in an appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour” on Friday night.

“Shambles, a complete meltdown, apparently,” Brooks said. “I’ve never seen a presidential press conference with the president so angry in public. And you know, I sort of think he’s maybe mostly right on substance. He laid out apparently in the next few hours they are he going to be laying out the details of what the White House offer was. And there was a lot of revenue cuts, there was some spending cuts, there was entitlement cuts, revenue increase. So if those are real, then I think it was a pretty good deal. But the president’s tone of being the only adult in Washington, everyone else is a child, that he’s going to summon people to the White House as if they are kindergarteners, even if you agree on the substance, it’s kind of hard to go along with someone who is insulting you all the time. And so I think the president took a big risk. Maybe we will see his tone as he is giving it to them. He’s angry. He’s treating them like children. But a lot of people will take a look at it and say there’s a little arrogance and self-superiority there.”

Brooks has been hard on the GOP for its partisanship and called the deal that had been offered “a mother of no-brainers” in a column earlier this week. But this time he blasted Obama for his demeanor.

[Pepper]

Ya think, David?

[Sanguine]

But this time he blasted Obama for his demeanor

 

Wow. That's harsh. Can't find anything wrong with his ideas? Maybe because 0 is so sparing with them.

[Chickadee]

Krauthamer also talked about 0's arrogance on Friday night’s Fox News All-Stars:

 

Who Is Obama To SUMMON Leaders?

[righteousmomma]

Let him summon away. The more of this blatant arrogance on display the better.

Btw I listened to BBC news the other night and their expert commentators were Paul Krugman, the NYT and Brooks. And the sound bite was how the American people are siding with the president and his ideas against the GOP.

[Argyle58]

Well, Boehner pretty much let the "o" know what he could do with his summons. White House admits that they will sign any bill that manages to pass both houses of congress on the theory that such a bill would have to be bi-partisan to even reach the "o"'s desk.

 

They blinked.

[pollyannaish]

Well, Boehner pretty much let the "o" know what he could do with his summons. White House admits that they will sign any bill that manages to pass both houses of congress on the theory that such a bill would have to be bi-partisan to even reach the "o"'s desk.

 

They blinked.

 

 

They did. And the fact that Democrats are working more closely with the GOP than they are the President is VERY, VERY telling.

 

I personally believe we won this round. It wasn't a knock out, but we won on the judges scores.