From 'Yes, We Can' to 'No! Don't!'(Obama...has united the Republican Party)

http://online.wsj.com ^ | AUGUST 15, 2009 | By PEGGY NOONAN

[Maelstorm]

I don't know what has happened to Noonan in her old age but she has managed to hide a gem in a truckload of manure.

[Kansas58]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Don’t fall for this false sense of security folks. This is the new talking points. Noonan and the beltway conservatives are going to declare Obamacare defeated in which it’ll be passed when nobody’s looking. Remember that Noonan has no credibility. She voted for the Kenyan.

[hemogoblin]

Shut up, Peggy.

[pillut48]

Gosh, did Peggy forget to drink the koolaid for this column??? :-)

She's right on a lot of points for a change! Especially the one about HolyO "winning" a victory by sheer numbers of demmies in Congress--it will be a

Pyrrhic victory: a victory with devastating cost to the victor.

I predict that HolyO loses MAJOR political 'capital' over this whole debacle!

[DTogo]

No, on the contrary SCREW THE GOP too, Peggy!!

We The People DEMAND honest representation, and get neither from the DNC nor the GOP.

Washington DC needs an enema, which includes K Street and all you Beltway elitists with them!!

[givemELL]

United the Rep party to do what? Recognize that a collapsing financial system is not compatible with ANY spending program? Agree with Dims that socialist modeled Healthcare Co-ops are viable? Jump on a contrived, false climate change initiative? Only a few Dems and a few more in the Rep party have a clue...they are not in adequate numbers, and a frightened Ob may try to avoid the potential results of a 2010 election season, given the ‘AWAKENING’ by the public.

[Maelstorm]

I think she is pompous. She writes like a woman who is very depressed. I think she is probably over medicated but she is partially right. We are united and more and more people see Obama has just another far left liberal.

[kcvl]

Shut up, Peggy.

DITTO!

She can KMA! I don't care what she says/writes. She is no friend to conservatives. Especially after her attacks on Sarah Palin I don't read anything she writes.

[Vision Thing]

Better watch out, noonan. Your president may find your lack of faith disturbing.

[italianquaker]

Not only voted but supported odumbo in print many times

[The Wizard]

JUST KILL THE BILL

[ArtyFO]

Joker touches third rail, is electoracuted.

[skimbell]

I don't know if she's depressed or not. She sure as hell does go on though. Can't seem to get enough of herself.

[Diogenesis]

Obamacare was brought to us by Peggy Noonan, Obama and Romney.

Ms. Noonan "sleeps" with both.

[madameguinot]

She is a wordsmith not a political science genius. It’s like a lot of the Packers after Lombardi left, she was great because her great boss gave her direction/discipline.

[ntmxx]

Noonan is just another skank, propagandist and sometimes whining loud mouth from Washington DC…do you really want me to tell you what I believe.

[Fu-fu2]

I agree. Any bill will just be an incremental step towards nationalized healthcare. Some insurance reform, tort reform, Medicare/Medicaid oversite—a few tweeks to the system is all that is needed. NO government involvement in our healthcare! If anything, we need limited government and a dialing down of Federal Government power.

[4rcane]

[Jaidyn]

If she thinks Obama united the Republican party, then, perhaps she knows that Obama also united a lot of democrats with republicans against this horrendous bill. This has little to do with uniting the republican party, but everything to do with the potential destruction of the United States, no matter what your political standing is. RINOS will still be RINOS, in most other areas, and that is what’s dividing the party.