What's wrong with them, indeed!?
Over paid, over pampered, over exposed, over rated, overly self absorbed and overly willing to sell out the entire nation for their own gain; as a whole, they have become the greatest threat to America!
Superb. Thanks for posting.
Swamp gas. Washington, D.C., is built on a swamp and the emanations from the rotting vegetation eat away slowly at the human brain. This wasn't so bad back before the invention of air conditioning, when most District residents fled to more healthful climes during the summer, thus reducing their exposure.
"Mr. Obama said he keeps a photographic portrait of Lincoln on the wall of his office, and that "it asks me questions."
I'm sure it does. I'm sure it says, "Barack, why are you such an egomaniac?"
ROFLMAO! Good one peggy!
One of the best essays Ms. Noonan has ever written. Is she single {{sigh}}?
BTTT
Excellent article. I am utterly disgusted with the pols patting themselves and each other on the back for their many and wonderful virtues.
Shut up already!
Good article
Maybe a lot of them aren't bothering to think. Maybe Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no longer in the habit of listening to arguments but only of watching William Rehnquist, and if he nods up and down she knows to vote "no," and if he shakes his head she knows to vote "yes." That might explain some of the lack of seriousness in the decisions. Local government can bulldoze Grandma's house because it's in the way of a future strip mall that will add more to the tax base? The Ten Commandments can appear on public land but not in a courthouse, but Moses, who received the Ten Commandments can appear in the frieze of the House but he'll be sandblasted off the Supreme Court? Or do I have that the other way around?
What are they doing? All this hair splitting, this dithering, this cutting and pasting--all this lack of serious and defining principle. All this vanity.
Perhaps Justice Ginsburg or Justice Stevens will retire soon and write a memoir: "Like Jefferson I held to principle, and like Lincoln I often lacked air conditioning. But in my intellectual gifts I've always found myself to be more like Oliver Wendell Holmes . . ."
I think Katie Holmes could render more clear-sighted decisions than either of these two.
Washington is no different. They ALL know better than you and are willing to send others with guns to "help" you.
Funny how when the MSM talks about average folk being fed up with government, they then put McCain, Biden, et al in our face. Funny how I am fed up with the kind of govt Peggy is fed up with, not the kind the NY Times is fed up with!
Good warning to Frist in this article. He may have made a political mistake diagnosing Schaivo by TV, but he had good intentions. But Peggy nails him on the appearance of pride in this one...
Brilliant!
Ever wonder what the outcome might be if we put a vote to Americans on the following question?: Shall all members of Congress be dismissed, ruled ineligible to run again for their position, and new representatives be elected to replace them.
