Ah Clarice . . .
Here she is again at her best. This is an excellent primer for those self-righteous souls out there who feel sooo informed and so intellectually superior because they listen to PBS and think the foreign affairs talking points they swallow as “the truth” are not created by the Obamaites and passed on to MSNBC and the NYT for “proper dissemination.” The excerpts she provides from Daniel Greenfield writing at Front Page regarding the mess in the Middle East are up to her high standards as well.
Kim Strassel has Bruce Braley pegged
It could be better titled by one excerpt from Ms. Strassel’s piece: “So loud was the uproar… (from smearing the ‘chief occupation of citizens in his home state’ by Bruce Braley)…that few noted it was no gaffe”.
She slyly noted that we should give Mr. Braley, the trial lawyer, a medal for alerting the electorate to a big, if overlooked, issue in this year’s midterm; legal reform!
Strassel’s piece cites a wide variety of legal abuses that form the basis for major grassroots demand for tort reform in the aftermath of a GOP Senate takeover. Braley has made himself ground Zero in this. It could be enough to beat him, barring the unique ability of many in the Republican establishment, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by picking someone to run against him with who is likely to engender even more baggage producing animosity – a former : Goldman Sachs, Democrat donor, supporter of carbon tax credits Mark Jacobs.
Peggy is so over the crease in Obama’s pants, but not being jilted by GWB
OK maybe the crease thing was David Brooks but here’s the most telling comment from Peggy Noonan’s latest column:
“There’s a brute test of a policy: If you knew then what you know now, would you do it? I will never forget a conversation in 2006 or thereabouts with a passionate and eloquent supporter of the decision to go into Iraq. We had been having this conversation for years, he a stalwart who would highlight every optimistic sign, every good glimmering. He argued always for the rightness of the administration’s decision. I would share my disquiet, my doubts, finally my skepticism. One night over dinner I asked him, in passing, “If we had it to do over again, should we have gone in? would you support it?”
“And he said, “Of course not!”
Peggy just cannot let go of her deep dislike for GWB. Interesting that while her column may be the strongest attack yet on the total folly of the Obama presidency (which she once thought was a wonderful thing), this anecdote, mind you, was from 2006…BEFORE the surge, before the Iraq war was essentially won…and then, later lost by Obama.
She just had to get something into this column negative toward Bush and it didn’t seem to matter to Peggy whether it made sense or not.
I still contend that Ms. Noonan’s whole problem with GW was his failure to recognize the genius which Peggy sees in herself. I think she still imagines that she is what made Reagan a great president.
Anybody wonder why Peggy is so irrelevant to any serious political discussion today?
DLH
