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Mr. Narcissus Goes to Washington
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| May 26, 2005
| Peggy Noonan
Posted on 05/26/2005 4:31:28 AM PDT by oldtimer2
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Comment #1 Removed by Moderator
To: oldtimer2
This is one great read. And funny.
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:31:56 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: oldtimer2
I just love Peggy Noonan's style and how she can cut through all the bulls**t.
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:33:11 AM PDT
by
oldtimer2
(TANSTAAFL)
To: oldtimer2
She is always a great read... She deserves her pic posted, too!
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:35:54 AM PDT
by
pageonetoo
(You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
To: Peach
One of Peggy's best - ever. She really nailed the part about press conferences after a murderer is finally caught - that has long been a peeve of mine.
To: oldtimer2
Please don't try to bypass the excerpt requirement by reposting the article as a reply
To: oldtimer2
Great Peggy Noonan thanks.
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:39:57 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: oldtimer2
The RATS will filibuster again. The Republicans will use the Constitutional Option, and it will work. At least 2 of the 14 deal-makers will vote for cloture. And I predict one of them will be Graham. Not out of any high morality or good sense, but this deal backs him into a corner and the folks back home are majority conservatives.
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:42:16 AM PDT
by
samtheman
To: Peach
I's not really shur i get's her point. See, I's 1 of Linday's rubes bak here in Chaaarleston that be angry at him, buts I takes great coomfort in knowing he's so much smaarter than us rubes. Why didn't he said he saved the Senate?? I's feels so much bettor know i's safe from the majority paarty excising their rites to maajority ruule. Lindsay, all I's can told u is while our anger may settle, our memry gonna last way past yo next lection. Hope u & McCain enjoy the pasture we's gonna put u out to retire in.
Signed,
One yo low country rubes
To: samtheman
I believe you have nailed it.
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:52:49 AM PDT
by
Pete'sWife
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: liberateUS
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:54:57 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: Peach
Peggy nails it.
My pet heave, er.. uh.. peeve, is when they call each other, My good friend, the distinguished man (or lady) from......
Nothing distinguished about MOST of them, IMHO.
To: Peach
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posted on
05/26/2005 4:59:51 AM PDT
by
RippleFire
("It's a joke, son!")
To: RippleFire
To: Peach
I don't know if politicians have ever been modest, but I know they have never seemed so boastful, so full of themselves, and so dizzy with self-love. Too true. Excellent article bump.
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posted on
05/26/2005 5:08:00 AM PDT
by
livius
To: liberateUS
You should email that to the esteemed pompous a**.
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posted on
05/26/2005 5:12:18 AM PDT
by
Radigan
To: liberateUS
LOL! You've got to re-write that in the second person and e-mail it directly to Lindsay Graham! Even money he wouldn't know it's satire!
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posted on
05/26/2005 5:19:04 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: Peach
I think everyone in politics now has been affected by the linguistic sleight-of-hand, which began with the Kennedys in the 1960s, in which politics is called "public service," and politicians are allowed and even urged to call themselves "public servants." Public servants are heroic and self-denying. Therefore politicians are heroic and self-denying. I think this thought has destabilized them. Bravo! Worth saying again.
A firefighter or a policeman going into the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 is a public servant, of the highest order. Senator Graham, et al, you, sirs, are politicians. And I mean that in the most perjorative way possible.
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posted on
05/26/2005 5:39:34 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Official Ruling Class Oligarch Oppressor)
To: FreedomPoster
Doh!
/perjorative/pejorative/
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posted on
05/26/2005 5:41:36 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Official Ruling Class Oligarch Oppressor)
To: Peach
It's not terrible--democracies need people who commit politics; they have a place and a role to play--but it's not saintly, either. Best description of the job yet...
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posted on
05/26/2005 5:45:22 AM PDT
by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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