Consider: of all weeks to say that some people cannot govern themselves, she picks the week of the Iraqi national elections.
Yes, right on both those points. Although I have been sensing a weakening of Peggy's morale for some time now; she seems very fond of that sort of elegaic tone that liberals effect in their writing, and her thoughts seemed to be moving in that direction, too.
As for her timing on this article, it couldn't have been worse.