Posted on 08/14/2009 7:38:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Don't strain the system. Don't add to the national stress level. Don't pierce when you can envelop. Don't show even understandable indignation when you can show legitimate regard. Realize that the ties that bind still bind but have grown dryer and more worn with time. They need to be strengthened, not strained.
Govern knowing we are a big, strong, mighty nation, a colossus that is, however, like all highly complex, highly wired organisms, fragile, even at places quite delicate. Don't overburden or overexcite the system. America used to have fringes, one over here and the other over there. The fringes are growing. The fringes have their own networks. All sorts of forces exist to divide us. Try always to unite.
These are things one always wants people currently rising in government to know deep in their heads and hearts. They are the things the young, fierce staffers in any new White House, and the self-proclaimed ruthless pragmatists in this one, need to hear, be told or be reminded of.
*** The big, complicated, obscure, abstruse, unsettling and ultimately unhelpful health-care plans, proposals and ideas keep rolling out of Washington. Five bills, thousands of pages, "as it says on page 346, paragraph 3, subsection D." No one knows what will be passed, what will make its way through House-Senate "conference." They don't even know what the president wants, what his true agenda is. He never seems to be leveling, only talking. Everything's open to misdirection and exaggeration, and everything, people fear, will come down to some future bureaucrat's interpretation of paragraph 3, subsection D, part 22.
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I’m not sure what her point is...somehow I sense it’s a Rodney King “Why can’t we all just get along?” plea. She still can’t call it like it is: This health care monstrosity, just like cap & tax, and the takeover of the financial and automotive industries, are nothing more than fascist power grabs.
“No You Won’t!”....much better cadence.
Peggy’s obtuse style wears thin, very thin. When the people no longer trust this government, it’s a good thing, because that is what the Founders intended.
The single most important factor that imperils Obamacare is the exploding deficit. We just simply cannot afford the humungous cost of Obamacare. To put this in some context, when Medicare was passed it too was underestimated cosr-wise, Today, Medicare costs are minimally ten times more than the estimate that was originally given when Medicare was passed. Today, Medicare is on the verge of bankruptcy. Obamacare would make things even worse both as another overly bureaucratic entitlement government program as well as financially irresponsible.
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I’ve gotten to the point that I DON’T WANT to “get along” with these collectivists.
They insist on enslaving us to their collective, and all we want to do is to be left alone to succeed or fail based on our own efforts.
It’s time for a separation. We need to make it impossible for their policies to affect our lives. Yes, I’m talking secession or at the very least, state sovereignty as intended at the founding.
I love FR, always something new to learn from it.
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Peg, wouldn’t it have been nice if the other candidates had seen this coming? Well, wait a minute. At least one did. Unfortunately, you don’t like her very much.
I agree on her writing style. It’s too self-consciously lyrical, and lacks the clarity necessary for a serious political debate.
It does in some measure explain her initial fascination with Obama, since it speaks of an inclination toward style over substance, an infatuation with the sounds of words rather than their actual meaning or consequence.
Read Saul Alinksy. It is the Obama playbook.
How can you still be this dense about what this guy is up to?
Wake up! This is not fringe vrs fringe, this is the people vrs the fringe. Only the fringe now controls the White House.
So, Peggy, what do you think about Sarah Palin’s vindication over her “Death Panel” statement?
Her entire point seems to be that she wants the kids to stop making all that noise.
Play nice, congress. Quiet down. Get along. Grandma's watching her shows and you're scaring her cats.
She is extremely self-conscious, but she isn't lyrical. She only TRIES to be.
And this sort of hackneyed ten-dollar-word-writing may be passable in a college literary magazine where "style" is the be-all and end-all, but it's completely wrong for a serious discussion of political reality.
Reality and Peggy parted company a long, long time ago.
I don’t give Noonan the dignity of a click anymore. Take your meds and fire up the porch rocker, Aunt Peggy. Conservatives are never fooled by rascals like 0bama — and govt itself is a rascal, needing constant watching and regular thrashing.
I like,” No You can’t” and the “You” does not include me.
Peggy seems downright sorry Obama is failing to sell this plan, but then she was one who thought he would blossom into some kind of healer, post Bush, who she didn’t like.
Wishful thinking it was and it is now becoming obvious to all thinking voters...and writers.
“The president [Obama] seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics—the swift rise, the astute reading of a varied electorate—who is finding out day by day that he isn’t actually all that good at it. In this sense he does seem reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, who was brilliant at becoming president but not being president.”
This may be a bit understated by Noonan, but it’s still pretty good. She certainly seems to be conceding that Obama is not good as the President. She see’s him as not being able to connect the dots between broad visions and minutia; as a poor leader. Could you expect more from Noonan? ...nnnnnah!
I wonder what Christopher Buckley is thinking these days?
Sounds like Peggy is experiencing her own brand of “voter’s remorse”; ennui. There’s a lot of wishful thinking in this piece along with the wishy-washy growing realization that she let herself be hoodwinked by this charlatan and invested all of her conservative credility in him.
In order for to her work her way back into the good grace of conservatives, she will have to turn on zero. IMO, she isn’t ready to do that yet because she still doesn’t recognize the full measure of his marxism.
When she finally does get there, it won’t be pretty . . . . . for Obama. Think “Woman Scorned” type of thing.
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