Posted on 08/07/2009 5:24:37 AM PDT by markomalley
We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care. There’s a new tone in the debate, and it’s ugly. At the moment the Democrats are looking like something they haven’t looked like in years, and that is: desperate.
They must know at this point they should not have pushed a national health-care plan. A Democratic operative the other day called it “Hillary’s revenge.” When Mrs. Clinton started losing to Barack Obama in the primaries 18 months ago, she began to give new and sharper emphasis to her health-care plan. Mr. Obama responded by talking about his health-care vision. He won. Now he would push what he had been forced to highlight: Health care would be a priority initiative. The net result is falling support for his leadership on the issue, falling personal polls, and the angry town-hall meetings that have electrified YouTube.
In his first five months in office, Mr. Obama had racked up big wins—the stimulus, children’s health insurance, House approval of cap-and-trade. But he stayed too long at the hot table. All the Democrats in Washington did. They overinterpreted the meaning of the 2008 election, and didn’t fully take into account how the great recession changed the national mood and atmosphere.
And so the shock on the faces of Congressmen who’ve faced the grillings back home. And really, their shock is the first thing you see in the videos. They had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context; they thought that in the middle of a historic recession featuring horrific deficits, they could assume support for the invention of a huge new entitlement carrying huge new costs.
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Noonan, Noonan, where does that name come from...
Oh yes, some ageing harridan from the Upper East Side trying to stay relevant.
yo Peg,their in for a real shocker come 2010, and beyond. You better brush up on your favorite recipes...pull a Biden and publish some cook book, because that's the only thing people might read if they make some sort of mistake
Yep. That's pretty bad, all right.
I know because I got that once when I went to Mexico and accidentally drank the water.
They believed their own lies.
“A little buyer’s remorse, Peggy? I will never forgive her for supporting Zero”.
...neither will Reagan.
They believed their own lies.
Sounds like Peggy is going to cry for her Messiah here.
My subtitle:
Peggy Noonan wakes up and smells the coffee !
Even an idiot is right occasionally.
the term “6 feet under comes to mind” when I hear the name Noonan, not sure why?
They are terrifying ME!....the union & administration thugs are terrifying me ....I think they know no bounds, and we're on the edge of a powder keg!
These socialistic disasters are only "big wins" to eastern elitists like Ms Noonan.
“They had no idea how people were feeling...”
“yo Peg,their in for a real shocker come 2010, and beyond. You better brush up on your favorite recipes...pull a Biden and publish some cook book, because that’s the only thing people might read if they make some sort of mistake”
I’d have to have a pretty big brain fart to forget what she’s been writing for a long time. A long time ago, she was relevant, til the koolaid came along.
Thanks, Peggy. Don’t forget: You did this. Never forget that.
Even Lanny Davis is not on board with Barry’s Deathcare...he told the Friends he needs more info on the public option and is not supporting it yet.
A good summary - bump for sharing later.
Peggy, Peggy, Peggy. The qualities you’re describing are ones that thousands, even millions of us saw LAST YEAR. Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the republic.
While you, Kathleen Parker and others were obssessed with electing the first black president, the rest of us were obssessed with “the content of his character”.
Now perhaps you can see why..
It has become commonplace in this country for the winning political party to declare that they won by a landslide and received a "mandate" from the people.
Obama won a squeaker from McCain and did NOT get a "mandate" for his radical agenda from the voters. His inexperience in . . . . . . . EVERYTHING has lead him to believe the hyperbole and false publicity about himself and he is becoming his own poster for why inexperienced people should NEVER, EVER, EVER be elected to the office of president, nor should they even be allowed to run.
Re: Noonan - apparently she's been off her meds for awhile and just started back on them. Her columns and opinions over the past year or so have been way off the mark. Hopefully, she'll return to being the sharp conservative columnist that we knew her as.
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