Out of Touch (Peggy Noonan Alert)

Wall Street Journal ^ | May 18, 2006 | Peggy Noonan

[LowCountryJoe]

Point taken; I can respect that. I don't like the fact that social issues are primarily where the Party's priorities are but I have to respect that without social conservatives the party shrinks,

By the way, there are many scumbag Americans that do the same kinds of things that some of the illegals are doing of course the tend to "blend" into society much better than a foreigner does.

[Miss Marple]

I gave you a list of reason why enforcing the current law is not the answer. It isn't that the government isn't willing to enforce curent law; it is that Congress has made it very, very difficult.

New, enforcable and comprehensive reform (law) needs to be written. If you are assuming the government won't enforce law, why are you asking for deportation? Let's have some consistancy, please!

[7thson]

I have to agree with you. Not just this Bush, but Jeb also. Remember, he recently stated illegals should be given in-state tuition. I may have to don a flame-prevention suit, but I am beginning to believe the entire Bush clan does have a disconnect with their base.

[7thson]

I am not so opposed to a one world government as long as it is run along American principles and line of thought. However, I am opposed to it as we make concessions and the other nations do not.

[7thson]

Noonan has gone sour on Bush and so has Ann Coulter. I think other pundits will soon be switching.

[mtntop3]

Peggy Noonan is a good woman. But her writing of late is best described as: sniffingly obtuse.

[jackv]

Where does she get off calling this president "flinty"? What is that anyway?
I appreciate the DaVinci Code portion, but I am sick of her telling me how stupid Bush is.

[jackv]

Everyone who claims this is "amnesty", please answer this. What do you call the penalties they are required to pay, along with all the back taxes they will be required to pay, getting in the BACK of the line, ot at the fron. What about all the years they are required to be there in line to prove their status, backgrounds, etc???
That is not a free pass. That is not amnesty.
Do you consider all crimes punishable by fines, not paid penalties either then??

[greyfoxx39]

Peggy has too much Peggy in her columns. Her palms must be blister-red from all the handwringing she's done of late.

One has to wonder what the Bush administration did to Pi$$ Peggy off....she sounds like she isn't getting the attention and admiration she thinks she deserves from them for her self-important analysis. After all, wasn't she someone important sometime back in another administration? Hmmmm?

She needs to stick to writing those sickly sweet little "feelings" pieces she is so good at.

[sinkspur]

Noonan has gone sour on Bush and so has Ann Coulter. I think other pundits will soon be switching.

Coulter is not much of a loss, given her stridency.

[greyfoxx39]

Is that you, Peggy?

[Rockitz]

I am not so opposed to a one world government as long as it is run along American principles and line of thought. However, I am opposed to it as we make concessions and the other nations do not.

Have we made concessions in this country since our founding fathers framed the US Constitution? You bet and this decay has accelerated in recent decades. It only goes one way, and that is away from principles rooted in God's Word. Only a fool would believe otherwise.

[Aquinasfan]

Well said Peggy.

[A. Pole]

"[...]The disinterest in the White House and among congressional Republicans in establishing authority on America's borders is so amazing [..]"

[A. Pole]

Once is a mistake. Twice is stupidity.

The third is intentional.