David Brooks: Obama Has Sometimes ‘Governed Like A Visitor From A Morally Superior Civilization’

On Sunday’s Meet The Press, New York Times writer David Brooks said that in his view, “most of the blame” for the fiscal cliff situation has to “go to the Republicans”, but President Obama’s fault lies in governing “like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.”

According to Brooks, since the election, Republicans have had a “brain freeze.” In the “shambolic” process of government, GOP members “have no strategy, they don’t know what they want, they haven’t decided what they want.” Obama, however, “hasn’t built their trust.”

Brooks says that in order for the president to accomplish anything over the next four years, “it’s got to be a lot more than making the intellectual concessions.” He goes on to complain that although Obama will talk with House Speaker John Boehner on a fiscal cliff deal, he “won’t talk with the other Republicans.”

“Boehner actually made a pretty serious concession,” he says. But Republicans need to be willing to trust the president to get a deal done and right now, they don’t.

Watch the full clip below, via NBC:

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