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RT @CStevenTucker The days of blaming Bush are over BO.This is your train wreck now & the Amer ppl want U 2 FIX IT WSJ http://bit.ly/1slvXv 10/31/2009 |
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The days of blaming Bush R ovr BO. ths is yr train wreck now & the American ppl wnt U 2 FIX IT http://bit.ly/1slvXv #tcot #gop(via @CSteven) 10/31/2009 |
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RT: @AlinskyDefeater WSJ - Peggy Noonan: It's His Rubble Now http://tinyurl.com/yl6p2lc #tcot #ocra 10/31/2009 |
No More Mister Nice Blog — WHEN BUSH WRAPPED HIMSELF IN HIS OWN FAILURE It's hard to have a simple response to Peggy Noonan's opening paragraphs this week: At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. From that point on, the presidency -- all his decisions, all the credit and blame for them -- was his. The American people didn't hold him responsible for what led up to 9/11, but they held him responsible for everything after it. This is part of the reason the image of him standing on the rubble of the ...
Rogue to Redemption: Palin endorsement brings intra-party battle to fore
The Note —
... Accountability: "President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency," Peggy Noonan writes in her Wall Street Journal column. "Does he know it? He too stands on rubble, figuratively speaking -- a collapsed economy, high and growing unemployment, two wars. Everyone knows what he's standing on. You can almost see the smoke rising around him. He's got a bullhorn in his hand every day." ...
Required Reading
Vodkapundit —
... But before you do, I’ll add my two cents. Even if Obama’s “allergy” wasn’t a ruse, his turn to Nixonian tactics might have been inevitable. When your policies are hyperpartisan, at some point you’re going to need tactics to match. Which brings us to Peggy Noonan. Here’s the takeaway sentence from her WSJ column this morning: ...
A Nooner With Noonan
Daily Pundit —
Peggy Noonan: It’s His Rubble Now - WSJ.com
The problem isn’t his personality, it’s his policies. His problem isn’t what George W. Bush left but what he himself has done. It is a problem of political judgment, of putting forward bills that were deeply flawed or off-point. Bailouts, the stimulus package, cap-and-trade; turning to health care at the exact moment in history when his countrymen were turning their concerns to the economy, joblessness, debt and deficits—all of these reflect a misreading of the political terrain. They are ...
The president’s unbecoming defensiveness
GayPatriot —
... Athena gets it. In her column this morning, Peggy Noonan says the president owns the “mess” (he claims he “inherited”) and should stop whining, roll up his sleeves and get to work: ...
Peggy Noonan: 9/11 Wasn’t Bush’s Fault, But the Great Recession is All Obama’s
Firedoglake —
... Pictured: Nooners with the owner of the 1982 recession
Nooners gives Chimpy another pass today:
At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. ...
Obama: It's Your Mop Now
Wizbang —
Peggy Noonan opines on Obama's "It's not my fault" routine, and says it is getting old : At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. From that point on, the presidency--all his decisions, all the credit and blame for them--was his. The American people didn't hold him responsible for what led up to 9/11, but they held him responsible for everything after it. This is part of the reason the image of him standing on the rubble of the twin towers, bullhorn in hand, on Sept.14, 2001, became an iconic ...
Peggy Noonan Misses The Turn To McCarthyism...
Discriminations —
... Peggy Noonan gets most things right, with verve and wit, and even when she’s wrong her writing is often impressive enough to pull along even disagreeing readers. She usually hits the slow pitches of idiocy and offensiveness thrown by our politics out of the park, but today she strikes out on Obama’s Fox war. ...
Meredith Jessup: In Case You Missed It...
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 6:28 PM Peggy Noonan wrote today for the Wall Street Journal about how Barack Obama and his "socialist mop" can clean up the mess our country is in today because "It's His Rubble Now" --he owns it and the American people want him to fix it.
Open Thread
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: It's Obama's rubble now!
President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency. Does he know it? He too stands on rubble, figuratively speaking—a collapsed economy, high and growing unemployment, two wars. Everyone knows what he's standing on. You can almost see the smoke rising around him. He's got a bullhorn in his hand every day. It's his now. He gets the credit and the blame. How do we know this? The American people are telling him. You can ...
Chief WH Economic Advisor Admits $Trillion Stimulus Job Creation Plan is a Bust!
Flopping Aces —
... to blame Bush for the mess at every opportunity but those words ring hollow after months of promising that if we followed his plan, his way hope and change would arrive. Rather than spend his time trying to work with Republicans and include their alternatives in possible solutions he has attacked them with some of the most partisan and divisive language ever spoken by a U.S. president.
Peggy Noonan, who after a brief infatuation with hope and change realized her error, has this to say:
His problem isn’t what George W. Bush left but ...
Noonan and Obama: public and private selves
neo-neocon —
Peggy Noonan explains Obama’s recent falling approval ratings in the polls by saying that he owns his presidency now. Nine months into his term, people have stopped giving him the benefit of the doubt as a newbie, and are beginning to consider him responsible for what is happening on his watch. It’s certainly not because Obama has stopped blaming Bush. That particular technique (his favorite) continues apace. But the public is less and less likely to buy it as time goes on, and I agree with Noonan that there’s been somewhat of a turning point lately. Regarding Obama, Noonan ...
Jerry Weissman: The Blame Game
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The political article was about President Obama in a commentary by the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan. Although Noonan was a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, she respects Obama. The Republican writer said of the Democratic president, "He willed himself into the presidency with an adroit reading of the lay of the land, brought together and dominated all the constituent pieces of victory, showed and shows impressive self-discipline, seems in general to stick to a course once he's chosen it." ...
Barack Obama and General McClellan
Sense of Events —
... but lacking resources isn't one of them. 3. Refusing to take responsibility. Or, as Hyatt explains McClellan's flaw here, "blaming everyone else." This is almost as as strong a hallmark of Obama as his inability to take a decision. At almost 10 months into his presidency, Obama is still blaming George W. Bush for all the problems. Or, as Mark Steyn puts it, "Obama makes Bush his blame czar." Problem is, no one's buying it any more. As Peggy Noonan put it, "It's His Rubble Now." The president said last week, at a San Francisco ...
