Guess who’s still talking (and telling the GOP to turn “Hard a’Port!”)? Yep, it’s Obama Voter (and New York Times house “conservative”) David Brooks, who uses his formerly-coveted space in the Times today to tell Republicans that actually returning to a platform based in promoting fiscal conservatism and opposing radical, unprecedented borrowing/spending and government expansion is “totally misguided.”

Thankfully, GOP leaders appear to be wisely ignoring his “advice.”

Brooks, like David Frum, is a faux-conservative pundit who inexplicably claims that the way for the Republican party to succeed is to become a poor imitation of its Democratic opposition. Of course, Brooks — a self-proclaimed “moderate” — voted for that Democratic opposition this past November, despite the GOP nominating a “maverick” moderate who should have been not only palatable, but exciting, to a person like Brooks.

The House GOP is finally getting back on track, as evidenced by its unanimous opposition to the $1,000,000,000,000.00 pork-laden “stimulus” bill, its fiscally-responsible counterproposals to Democrats’ runaway spending plans, and its pledge to work with President Obama to reduce spending, cut waste, and improve transparency.

Brooks claims that he voted for Obama, in part, because he expected this young, inexperienced president to be a uniter who would work across the aisle to bring hope, change, transparency, and responsibility to Washington. Pushing a $1,000,000,000,000.00 pork barrel spending bill through Congress without letting a single Member read it, then following on the heels of that fiasco by supporting a $410,000,000,000.00 spending bill chock-full of (9,286) airdropped earmarks, is neither fiscal responsibility nor any sort of change from Washington-as-usual whatsoever.

House Republicans are not only standing against this waste, but are offering to reach across the aisle to help President Obama keep his campaign promises of increased fiscal transparency and accountability, and decreased pork barrel spending and airdropping of earmarks. Democrats, on the other hand, are working with President Obama to spend money like it’s going out of style, while simultaneously expanding government and astronomically growing the deficit and debt — yet it’s the fiscally-responsible, compromise-offering Republicans, rather than the tax-and-spend, kick-the-minority-to-the-curb Democrats, that Brooks sees as being “totally misguided.”

Combined with the fact that he is a Democratic voter anyway, do Republicans really need to be given any more reasons why they shouldn’t be listening to David Brooks?