Blogosphere to NY Times: Release David Brooks!

All of the blogosphere...well, one or two sites...are reeling from the effects of reading Brooksie's column this morning.

Ralph Reed, meanwhile, smashed the tired old categories that used to separate social conservatives from corporate consultants. Reed signed on with Channel One, Verizon, Enron and Microsoft to shore up the moral foundations of our great nation. Reed so strongly opposes gambling as a matter of principle that he bravely accepted $4 million through Abramoff from casino-rich Indian tribes to gin up a grass-roots campaign.

As time went by, the spectacular devolution of morals accelerated. Many of the young innovators were behaving like people who, having read Barry Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative," embraced the conservative part while discarding the conscience part.

If David Brooks is going to become intellectually honest about the greed heads in the GOP, then we lefty bloggers are going to lose one of our most reliable pinatas.