Finding a New Voice for the GOP - David Brooks and Gail Collins

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New York Times columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins contemplate the future of the Republican Party. Brooks believes the GOP has no voice on germane issues of the day and Collins says conservatives sorely need a new message and agenda.

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Two New York Times columnists discuss the Obama administration's first 100 days in office.

David Brooks and Gail Collins evaluate the significance of Barack Obama's election victory, the nature of his mandate for change and many of the most significant domestic and foreign policy issues the administration has faced since it took office. - Yeshiva University

David Brooks became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He had been an editor at The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic. Currently a commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he is also the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense

Gail Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an Op-Ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times's editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish her new book: When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. She returned to The Times as a columnist in July 2007.

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[wimscheers]

Get rid of that bloody two party system already. Democrats divide in a moderate, liberal and a small social party. Conservatives divide up in libertarians and the neocons. The green party finaly gets a chance.

 A healthy political landscape where you can finally ignore those neocons and work with reasonable people.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

Fora don't waste my time with Brooks unless he has something poignant to say

[QuatFax]

@wimscheers I disagree. All a multi-party system would do would make corporations more creative in their manner of controlling our government. I mean, corporations still control the British government, and the UK has three political parties.

[tonylee1973]

@wimscheers I agree.

[tonylee1973]

yeah there is a new voice. rand paul. brooks find a bridge and jump off it.

[igglesgirl419]

Gail Collins is, as most libs are, mentally sick in the head. Truth are lies and lies are truth to them. She is a lying skank. People know when you're lying you know - idiot. How about you see a therapist to fix the goonies in your head and then maybe you can stop putting flat out lies in print.

[exinferiz]

wow... i think Brooks has it right.... mark his words... it is difficult to see it now.

[java568]

I'm ashamed that Brooks is a part of my alma mater. No wonder the New York times is going bankrupt.

[Nilopollis]

No i voted obama because i was horrified of palin

[Politicrafty]

You voted Mccain/Palin?

[Nilopollis]

While I would love to see it, it seems like a fantasy to me. Remember the republicans did get a big minority of the vote. People are afraid to vote their conscience because of things like ross perot helping to elect bill clinton. And ralph nader helping gore lose. If i had known that palin had no chance of being president I personally would have voted green or libertarian depending on my mood.