Out of Touch (Peggy Noonan Alert)

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

[al baby]

If Peggy were twenty years younger she and I would be a couple

A couple of what ?

[BurtSB]

Yes , its Ted Kennedy 's bill and e fooled
Hagel/ Martinez ( Rhinos) to peddle it!
Ted is a nasty piece of work who created this mess back in the 70's when he changed the immigrant ratios away from skilled Europeans to unskilled south americans !
Take a guess why !
Noonan is right , Bush and the Senate are fools !
And good old Ted is set them up for a hundred years of DNC control of all three houses !

[jla]

A couple of what ?

That clever riposte was already asked in post 35.

[A. Pole]

Once is a mistake. Twice is stupidity.

And three times might be intentional.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sadly to say it... but that is the way I felt it too...

yep. She captred the nature of the speech exac tly and exlains why it was so unsatisfying. Even though GW appeared to say all the right things, it just didn't ever get off the ground, because he stolidly ignores the implications down the road.

This more than most anything else is leading me to conclude that while he is a man of faith he really has no instinct for the treasury of traditional American values. He may have been raised in Texas but at heart he is an east coast Episcopalian.

[lonedawg]

Touche!!

[al baby]

Note to self read all replies before posting gmta

[Nuc1]

"If Peggy were twenty years younger she and I would be a couple."

In your dreams! You would have to stand in line!! Besides I wouldn't mind being 30 years younger with her myself!

[LowCountryJoe]

I hear you. But I'm an out-of-touch "conservative" [I'm don't consider myself a conservative, as my tag suggests]. I think that economic "conservatism" is the far more important issue...the issue that should be garnering all of the attention. But that's just me. I only write it in these thread to try and influence others: well, that and the fact that I happen to believe that immigrants -- even the illegal ones -- pay for themselves significantly over time and generations. Not very many on this forum agree with me on that though.

[lonedawg]

Nutmeg talks to himself!!(see post #46)

[strategofr]

"Why would Tom Hanks lend his prestige to such a film? Why would Ron Howard? They're both already rich and relevant."

They've made their deals with the Left---or they wouldn't be the successes they are in the movie business. When the orders come down, they march.

[Biblebelter]

the perceived detachment of the political elite from people on the ground, and a new distance between the president and his traditional supporters.

My definition of a political elite in this context is that Americans are too stupid understand when amnesty is repackaged under the name of earned citizenship. The Senate Bill with Hagel's name on it was written by Kennedy staffers. Political elitism and disdain for the common sense of the American people has always been spelled K E N N E D Y.

[hsalaw]

Wow, touche ... even Noonan is soured on Bush.

Peggy Noonan has been sour on Pres. Bush for quite some time now. She's been putting the worst possible spin on everything he says or does, including that idiotic column on how he had "too much God" in the SOTU. She no longer has any credibility with me.

[lonedawg]

half a million ...Maybe....Twelve million...No Way!!!!

[Miss Marple]

Peggy being soured on Bush is not a new phenomenon. She has been doing her patented cutesy "damning with faint praise" columns since the 2004 Inaugural speech.

She can't ever find very much good to say about President Bush, but considers that leftist West Wing writer a "good friend."

[diogenes ghost]

"..Reagan's speech writer..he gave amnesty to 3 billion illegal aliens.." I guess most of 'em went home then, 'cause there aren't nearly that many here now.

[org.whodat]

I keep waiting for someone to start asking the amnesty supporter in the senate and media. How many foreign born people have been employed by themselves are someone in their household. I think several of those old men are just trying to protect the up stairs maid. Are in Fred Barnes case it may be the up stairs boy.

[lonedawg]

She can't ever find very much good to say about President Bush, but considers that leftist West Wing writer a "good friend."

Is that the detective in you saying that!!