The Biggest Issue

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=211618&f=28

David Brooks is on this morning talking about 'human capital policies' - education. Once again flirting with obama (and make no mistake a Brooks endorsement would be huge with a lot of upper middle class White's who pretend they are independent but vote republican pretty consistently) his most important line is less his inclination towards Obama than the admission that Republicans are intellectually bankrupt on education policy.

At his best Brooks is insightful, relevant, non partisan without loosing his ideological point of view, and well written. Unfortunately it just heightens how far the republican party has fallen from its intellectual roots.