The proposed Eisenhower Memorial, as designed by Frank Gehry.

Frank Gehry is not having a easy time of it when it comes to his proposed design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. First the National Capital Planning Commission’s public comment period for the site was awash in allegations that the famed architect had been “saving his worst work for Washington,” prompting the consideration of alternate designs.

Then, last month, the Eisenhower family chimed in, going so far as to asking the NCPC to put a stop to the memorial’s already behind-schedule development, feeling that Gehry’s blueprint underplays Ike’s role as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II and overstates his origins as a ““barefoot boy from Kansas.”

Now David Frum, a conservative commentator and speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, is adding to the Gehry backlash. In an article for The Daily Beast, Frum complains that Gehry’s design—a grove of oak trees surrounded by 80-foot-tall columns linked by a stainless-steel tapestry depicting scenes from Eisenhower’s life—isn’t just ugly, it’s empty:

The core problem here is that the monument does not have anything to say, period. It reminds me of those self-help books that bulk out their space with blank pages in which readers are invited to jot their own thoughts.

Furthermore, Frum recommends the planners of the $100 million memorial that is supposed to be ready by 2015 start over altogether, including booting Gehry from the project. Frum feels that Gehry, his fellow Canadian-American is “is interested in pure form.” That’s not a good thing:

He rejects the constraints of time, place, and subject matter. Result: a Gehry building is always about Gehry. Hiring him to design a monument to somebody else was an exercise in predictable failure.