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Normal Service Resumed (Let's Tell Peggy What We Think)
The Wall St. Journal ^ | 2/4/05 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 02/03/2005 10:35:59 PM PST by paulat

Normal Service Resumed The George Bush the nation re-elected is back.

Friday, February 4, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

George Bush finally began his second term on Wednesday night with an address that marked the return of the Bush of the stump, the Bush who was re-elected president three months ago and whom the nation knows well. His State of the Union address underscored that he meant what he said when he ran: Efforts to move against junk lawsuits, protect marriage and reform Social Security are all on the table. America continues as a friend of liberty throughout the world. The speech was marked by an air not of insistence but of persuasion. George Bush made it clear he does not intend to cooperate with the tradition whereby second terms are all anticlimax enlivened by scandal. He will not be at the mercy of history. He means to continue doing big things. This was the plainspoken Bush of old.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; noonan; sotu; term2
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1 posted on 02/03/2005 10:36:00 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

Wait a minute, Peggy...according to you, we're not SUPPOSED to have big dreams and plans.

This was the George Bush I've known all along.


2 posted on 02/03/2005 10:38:32 PM PST by paulat
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To: arasina

Peggy ping.


3 posted on 02/03/2005 10:42:44 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("Three quarks for Muster Mark!" (James Joyce)
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To: paulat

The title "Normal Service Resumes" might better apply to Peggy herself.

Welcome back, Ms. Noonan, we missed you, and don't you dare let Paul Krugman guestwrite another column.


4 posted on 02/03/2005 10:45:08 PM PST by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
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To: paulat

"according to you, we're not SUPPOSED to have big dreams and plans."

Ah yes, a postive article from Noonan followed by negative commentary. Surprise, surprise.


5 posted on 02/03/2005 10:46:05 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6

...uh...did you not read her Inaugural column. She said Bush's goals were unreasonable and out-of-reach.

THAT was the basis of my comment. Read the column.


6 posted on 02/03/2005 10:48:59 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat
(Let's Tell Peggy What We Think)

About what?

Peggy is very supportive of the President and his programs in this piece.

Whatever it was that upset her about the inaugural address has past. She's moved on; perhaps we should, too.

7 posted on 02/03/2005 10:49:42 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: paulat
Quote:

In the foreign-policy section the president was markedly modest in tone. …This was gentle but pointed, more specific and less messianic, than the recent inaugural--and therefore less open to misinterpretation. It was more finely calibrated, which is to say it was calibrated.

Peggy is a one-note samba — any speech which is not 'gentle', that is, squishy and full of syrupy verbage, is sub-par in here book.

Her columns are getting so rambling and pointless that it's increasingly tough to take them seriously.

8 posted on 02/03/2005 10:50:17 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc
and therefore less open to misinterpretation

I didn't have any trouble with it at all, did you?

9 posted on 02/03/2005 10:53:19 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: okie01
Whatever it was that upset her about the inaugural address has past. She's moved on; perhaps we should, too.

WHAT??!! What if our fighting people got "upset." What if Condoleeza Rice got "upset." What if the voting Iraqi people got "upset."

Peggy just figured out which way the wind was blowing.

10 posted on 02/03/2005 10:54:35 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat
THAT was the basis of my comment. Read the column

I've already read the column - and the 4 threads here bashing her for it. Move on.

11 posted on 02/03/2005 10:55:38 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6

Move on.





Nope.


12 posted on 02/03/2005 10:57:18 PM PST by paulat
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To: quidnunc; MeekOneGOP; Happy2BMe; Grampa Dave; devolve; onyx; potlatch; ntnychik; PhiKapMom
It was more finely calibrated, which is to say it was calibrated.

She's talking about her meds dosage.

I have her The Case Against Hillary Clinton, Regan Books, 2000.

It doesn't need footnotes as she wrote it entirely with her feet.

13 posted on 02/03/2005 10:59:17 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Fenris6

I don't like "fingers-in-the-wind" people.


14 posted on 02/03/2005 10:59:17 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat
"Move on. Nope."

She turned you down, eh?

So you're posting this week's article to complain about last week's...

15 posted on 02/03/2005 11:00:21 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: paulat
But she just couldn't help herself and brought up the Inaugural speech,yet again and what the bloody hell was " MESSIANIC" about that speech anyway,dear Peggy?
16 posted on 02/03/2005 11:03:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Fenris6
So you're posting this week's article to complain about last week's...

...uh...duh...that's HOW you PROVE inconsistency...quoting one after the other...

...seems pretty straightforward to me....

17 posted on 02/03/2005 11:04:28 PM PST by paulat
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To: nopardons

..and the Noonan-Buzzards begin to roost. Like clockwork.


18 posted on 02/03/2005 11:05:02 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: paulat
And she beat the president over the head,yet again,over that "MESSIANIC" speech in this article. So much for Peggy being returned to the fold.Once a hack,always a hack.
19 posted on 02/03/2005 11:05:55 PM PST by nopardons
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To: okie01

Did you read the entire article? It doesn't look like it,from your reply.


20 posted on 02/03/2005 11:07:01 PM PST by nopardons
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