Bracing Ourselves

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Feb 6, 2009 | Peggy Noonan

[tvdog12345]

I don't follow what Noonan writes. She might be as disgraceful as you all say, but this article is good. I like this part:

On the economy, I continue to find no one, Democrat or Republican, who has faith that the stimulus bill passed by the House will solve anything or make anything better, though many argue that doing absolutely nothing will surely make things worse by not promising at least the possibility of improvement through action.

In other words, the stimulus bill will do nothing economically useful, but it makes people feel good. Sounds right.

[incredulous joe]

I hate crass metaphors, but I heard Noonan Dennis Miller after the Inaugural, and she literally sounded post-coital ~ seriously! I can’t say that I had heard very many interviews with her before that, but I simply don’t recall her sounding like that before.

She’s just another NYC lib; selling papers. She could come back to our side, but it would only be to increase her readership. She has no core values.

I couldn’t possibly read her again ~ ever!

[mimaw]

Murdoch's WSJ could cut some more expenses by cutting her column. Too late Peggy no one finds you interesting anymore. You have no credibility. Your a dried up old drone whose time is passed.

[Wpin]

I think what moved me most in this article is the quiet desperation she so poignantly expresses. We KNOW the dark clouds are on the horizon but we must push forward, if nothing else because we do not know what else to do...

[penelopesire]

“Bracing Ourselves” ... I would like to, but I’m too busy “girding my loins”.

ROTFLOL....I don’t know what I would do without witty Freeper remarks to ease the horror of it all!

[penelopesire]

Still reading..but this stuck out:

“His political mistake, which in retrospect we will see as huge, is that he remoralized the Republicans. He let them back in the game.’

WE???? She sounds sad that the republicans are getting their mojo back!!

[sten]

i’ve been saying it for months. the dems have until june to crater the US economy and still blame the former administration/republicans.

once its cratered, they will provide various social programs people will need to be able to eat. at that point, we will be in 1930... and the dems will have secured power for 20-40 years

i’m still trying to figure out how to avoid the splatter. keeping your monies in the market is just asking to get hosed. keeping it in dollars or euros... both will plummet. the chinese rmb is one idea, as their unhooking from the dollar is soros end goal anyhow. right now, all i can see is gold, as it has never lost its buying power

[Just mythoughts]

I guess she did not get the job.

[Republic of Texas]

Unless she is content to write about how she helped lose the country, figuring it out, AFTER THE FACT, isn’t good enough anymore.

[WVNight]

Keep the money in bullets and beans.

[Salvey]

Dramatic sighs while mouthing banal observations is her trademark.

This also describes that vapid Mika Brz..whatever.

[Arthur McGowan]

I’m visiting this thread only to say that I’m not reading the column. I got sick of Peggy Noonan writing about nothing but how we all feel a long time ago.

It’s the Column About Nothing.

BTW, Peggy. Obama wants the United States to END, and that is the purpose of all his policy choices. He wants an American city to get nuked. He wants to see Americans freezing and starving. He and his buddies will be helicoptered out and spend their days in comfort, courtesy of George Soros.

[Defiant]

On your recommendation, I will give her a read, having given up on her a while back. She is lost, but, like George Will, can still express some coherence once in a while.

[genetic homophobe]

BS. Nobody’s arguing that we do nothing. Nobody. Noonan’s a spent piece of tarnished .....