David Brooks Weeps/Shills for America’s Tortured Corporate Titans

David Brooks Weeps/Shills for America’s Tortured Corporate Titans
By: Scarecrow Tuesday May 26, 2009 9:01 am

Did Rush Limbaugh finally get to David Brooks? How else to explain Brook's about face on Obama, whom Brooks has repeatedly praised for his thoughtful, measured, and centrist decisions -- i.e., those that David agreed with -- but whom Brooks now not-so-subtly equates with Russian Czars and fascist jack boots?

Today's snarky column, And the Angels Rejoice, aligns Brooks with the nuttiest of the nutty, ridiculing Obama for behaving like a Czarist/fascist dictator in torturing -- as "in the disembowlment scene from 'Braveheart'" -- America's corporate elites. Brooks explains our corporate titans' forced willingness to be perceived as cooperating with a popular President:

"Then the president leads the executives out onto the White House lawn for the announcement ceremony. Often, the president will still be carrying the riding crop and the pliers used in the private negotiation. He moves to the microphone while the executives take their pre-assigned places behind him, the jingle of their leg shackles blending with the dulcet tones of spring. I thought one hospital executive was so moved by the occasion that he had slipped into catatonic shock, except that he was blinking “Save Me! Save Me!” in Morse code to his shareholders.

“We meet at an exciting moment for our country, a time of unprecedented cooperation between government and private industry,” the president intones, lifting his foot from the trachea of an unconscious pharmaceutical executive."

Yes, America's corporate elites have truly been tortured by this brutal regime. Obama has only saved both GM and Chrysler from uncontrolled bankruptcy, while keeping them afloat with tens of billions in loans and guarantees while muscling their workers and lenders to accept deep concesions. His jackboot on the throats of the financial industry elites consists of several trillion dollars in bailouts, loans, loan and deposit guarantees, a misunderstood assets purchase plan designed to give the banksters free capital, and a proposed set of reforms that leaves the Masters of the Universe in place while assuming too big to fail merely means we need to watch them more closely, but by the same people who missed the $8 trillion housing buble and thought deregulating the financial industry was good for America.

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