Comments on: Peggy Noonan Calls Peggy Noonan UnAmerican

By: tom

tom — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:50:40 +0000

My most favorite memories from Bush’s first inauguration were people egging his limo on the way in and “hail to the thief” signs.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:50:51 +0000

It was dark early.

It usually does that in January.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:48:59 +0000

Right on time, not just wing-nuts, but the supposedly “librul” MSM decide to turn on a dime. Expect the following in the coming weeks, things that nobody talked about under Chimpy’s disastrous rule:

1) Need for more oversight of the Executive branch.
2) Need for less intrusive means of surveillance of American citizens re: FISA, wire-tapping in general.
3) Need for an end to presidential fiat re: signing statements.
4) Need for more Congressional oversight over things like defense spending being done in supplemental bills.

Those are just a few off the top of my head. But yup, it’s the Clinton rules all over again. But I think Obama will walk the line pretty well. He has an electoral mandate, and he needs to get things done during his first term, MSM be damned.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:26:45 +0000

She spent years talking about the perfection of Bush.

By: Haplo9

Haplo9 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:04:34 +0000

And you conclude that she thinks these things.. how? Where in her column does she say “Bush is perfect, he can do no wrong.”? She obviously had high hopes for him, hopes which you (and I) share for Obama. Horrors. Like I said, she’s a selective partisan, and so are you.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:26:12 +0000

The difference is I don’t think Obama walks on water and can do no wrong, and I certainly don’t think he’s a God.

By: Haplo9

Haplo9 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:25:07 +0000

Oliver Willis found the hero worship of Bush distasteful, especially after 9/11. Now that Obama has been elected however, Oliver is all too happy with hero worship, and has been enjoying it himself. Is there any core to progressivism???

Here, I think, is a more accurate (and far less hyperbolic) statement:

Peggy Noonan is a selectively outraged partisan. So is Oliver Willis.

By: The Reality-Based Dave

The Reality-Based Dave — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:08:22 +0000

Is it irresponsible to speculate that Peggy taught Mickey Kaus the finer techniques of goat-blowing? It is irresponsible not to.