Peggy Noonan turned against Bush on the day of his second Inaugural, and she has been irrational in her comdemnation of him ever since.
Really? I didn’t sense that.
Totally agree. Totally amazing how President Bush met the majority of the liberals demands and they are still foaming at the mouth mad at him.
Bush43 signed McCain/Feingold into law.
Bush43 looked forward "to seeing us in the rose garden" for his signing into law the McCain/Kennedy/Bush Shamnesty act of 2007
Bush43 has failed to veto ANY spending bill.
I fully expect Myth Romey AKA Bush44 to be equally as bad.
Sure you have to give the Republican congress their share of the blame, but if there's one individual who could have put a stop to all of that spending, it was G.W. Bush. In fact, the really big ticket items (the prescription drug program and the War in Iraq) were efforts that HE initiated. The pork barrel stuff, a half million here, a billion there, that are rightly attributed to congress are small potatoes compared to the entire federal budget.
That being said, I don't disagree with the author that we got who we voted for when we elected Bush. For a politician, he has been uncommonly honest. He did what he said he would.
Well, except I don't remember him saying he would leave office with the country on the brink of bankruptcy. I'm sure he didn't intend to...
Exactly. She holds a grudge and has never forgiven
Bush for not inviting her to be his speech writer.
I still haven't figured out if Peggy's just menopausal, or she's ticked because she didn't get a job in the administration. You know what they say about "a woman scorned."
Correct. She didn’t like the overt religious aspects of the second inaugural speech. I think she travels in liberal circles which has skewed her world view.
Altogether, I think W has done a good job during rough times.
It was inevitable that the Republicans nomination process would divide the Reagan coalition. There’s nothing to stop it from reforming in face of the Clinton specter.
If you recognize that Bush's second Inaugural was basically irrational itself, a bizarre recrudescence of the Wilsonian delusion of 90 years earlier, then Noonan's alarm makes a lot more sense.