Mark’s riff on the silliness of David Brooks enlisting Oakeshott against Obama reminds me: where were Brooks and other conservative devotees of Oakseshott when the radical privatizers like Phil Gramm and George W. Bush wanted to take apart settled institutions such as Glass-Steagall and Social Security, for the apparent benefit of the rich and super-rich. or when the neo-cons and George W. Bush wanted to remake the Middle East?
A little consistency is just too much to ask of conservative columnists.