Posted on 10/30/2009 3:14:39 PM PDT by ckilmer
A good reason that most of our politicians, State and Federal, need to go.
I agree with Rush. The mood isn’t one of despondency. It’s barely concealed anger.
I think many of “the lordlings” are perhaps useful idiots - others I’m guessing know exactly what they’re doing.
I don’t read Peggy Noonan anymore. But it sounds like she has some nerve pointing out the obvious after her kool-aid laced Obummer cheerleading.
Good riddance Peggy take Brooks and Buckley with you.
Um......didn’t Peggy follow the Pied Piper into the cave last Fall??
yeah that’s the interesting thing. looks like she’s getting it.
It’s a trick. She’s not “getting it.” Noonan never will.
So Peggy, now you wake up. I’m torn between scoffing at your tardiness and praising your ability to crack open the DC bubble wide enough to see out.
So, you think some people are going to quit. You are late again, quite a few of us have already pulled out of the rat/tax race to wait for better times. Check the Federal tax receipts. Those losses are much larger than the unemployment rate would indicate. Those of us who can are lowering our tax exposure until the current fools in power either go away or collapse the entire system. I include many Republicans in the current crop of fools.
I expect this process to take about 15 years. Remember, it took about 40 years to get here. There will be much resistance to the real hope and change, meaning changing to less government on all levels. It’s either that or a total collapse IMO.
Not most, all. Make a clean sweep of it, there aren't enough worthwhile ones to justify the risk of leaving any rotten apples in the barrel. The ones who are unjustly removed can always run again.
Would somebody please explain why the “theme” of Noonan’s article has now transmogrified into a “meme”? Why is her theme actually a meme?
The despondent are the ones who had their faith in O and are slowly realizing that the guy is an incompetent marxian con man.
The people who already knew he was an incompetent marxian con man aren’t despondent, they are ticked. They are starting to bow up. They’ve got no use for weak-kneed bi-partisan GOP swells, they are looking for someone who knows how to fight and isn’t afraid to do it.
The pols who get that and have the nerve to tap into it are going to get a good run out of it. The ones who are too smart for their own good, like maybe Newt and Noonan, and the mushes like McCain and Graham, are going to miss it; they thought they could outdance the devil when they ought never to have danced with him at all.
Life lesson. You don’t dance with the devil. You kick his butt.
DITTO!
Despondency is a place one needs to be in before anger. Some are really depressed, depression is repressed anger. Once they get in touch with their anger, well IMHO all hell will break loose.
At that point O orders to troops to fire on the conservative protesters.
I hate that word. Pointy headed journalists introduced it to the popular lexicon not too long ago, and now it's "hip". I hate hip. I prefer straight talk.
He can do that, but they're not going to shoot their friends, relatives, and fellow Americans.
He can do that, but they're not going to shoot their friends, relatives, and fellow Americans.
From what my military friends tell me...Bambi can't count on them one bit.They will obey LAWFUL orders from a LAWFUL president and not murder their own countrymen.
Note to Emanuel...This isn't China yet.
I wish Freepers would learn to read more carefully. This isn't Peggy Noonan's article - it was written by Wretchard for his blog, The Belmont Club, on Pajamas Media. He merely quoted one of Noonan's comments as part of making his own points.
Wretchard (aka Richard Fernandez) writes some brilliantly creative and insightful essays on his blog. Whether you agree with him or not (and I frequently don't), he is always worth reading.
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