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@tomleddo Fascinating, and disconcerting, article. RT We're Governed by Callous Children http://bit.ly/1DFtLm 11/2/2009 |
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RT @WSJ We're Governed by Callous Children: Americans feel increasingly disheartened & our leaders don't even notice. http://bit.ly/14Fzxn 11/2/2009 |
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RT @WSJOpinion: Governed by Callous Children: Americans feel increasingly disheartened & our leaders don't even notice. http://bit.ly/14Fzxn 11/1/2009 |
Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... think America is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why not? She laid it in their laps. She laid it in grandpa’s lap.“They don’t feel anxious, because they never had anything to be anxious about. They grew up in an America surrounded by phrases—’strongest nation in the world,’ ‘indispensable nation,’ ‘unipolar power,’ ‘highest standard of living’—and are not bright enough, or serious enough, to imagine that they can damage that, hurt it, even fatally.“We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children , sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves ...
Teaparties of the Rich and Famous
If I Ran the Zoo —
Shorter Peggy Noonan: "The chatter's of holding our breath until we go Galt."
Deficit Hawk Hysteria
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
... NH Union Leader October 30, 2009 We're Governed By Callous Children Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system,... ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Peggy Noonan has written more offensive columns, and more ridiculous columns, but I don't think she's ever written a dumber column than this one: ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... distilling it to sound ominously anti-progressive. I wonder why no one reads newspapers any more? WaPo: House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. I wonder why no one trusts Congress any more? Peggy Noonan: Obama doesn't care about you. I've told him not to pass health reform and he's ...
Obama's Adolescent White House
Riehl World View —
... Peggy Noonan claims we are governed at every level today by callous children.
Part of the reason is that the problems—debt, spending, war—seem too big. But a larger part is that our federal government, from the White House through Congress, and so many state and local governments, seems to be demonstrating every day that they cannot make things better. They are not offering a new path, they are only offering old paths—spend more, regulate more, tax more in an attempt to make us more healthy locally and nationally. And in the long term ...
Whistling past the bone orchard
Cold Fury —
I haven’t paid the slightest attention to Peggy Noonan since she swallowed the Obama pill and dived down the rabbit hole last year, but she pops her head up for a moment to nail this one clean and tight: It is a curious thing that those who feel most mistily affectionate toward America, and most protective toward it, are the most aware of its vulnerabilities, the most aware that it can be harmed. They don’t see it as all-powerful, impregnable, unharmable. The loving have a sense of its limits. When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and ...
On to Something?
Neptunus Lex —
For the last few years at least, former Reagan era speechwriter and current WSJ op-ed writer Peggy Noonan has been a bit of a Debbie Downer. She has surveyed the wrecked landscape of the Gipper’s vision, endured the oily creepiness of the Clinton era, and mostly succeeded in holding her nose through the budget busting “compassionate conservatism” of George W.
Mostly.
Towards the end there, you could see her starting to lose her faith, the notion that we would somehow always muddle through. Today’s editorial is a kind of coda to her dirge of national decline:
The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% ...
PEGGY NOONAN: We’re Governed by Callous Children: Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and ou…
Instapundit —
PEGGY NOONAN: We’re Governed by Callous Children: Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice. But John Galt is present, in spirit at least:
The biggest long-term threat is that people are becoming and have become disheartened, that this condition is reaching critical mass, and that it afflicts most broadly and deeply those members of the American leadership class who are not in Washington, most especially those in business. . . .
I talked with an executive this week with what we still call “the insurance companies” and will no doubt soon be calling Big Insura. (Take it away, Democratic National ...
Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Daily Pundit —
Peggy Noonan: We’re Governed by Callous Children - WSJ.com
“If only we follow Obama and the Democrats, it will all get better”? Or, “If only we follow the Republicans, they’ll make it all work again”? I bet you haven’t, or not much.
This is historic. This is something new in modern political history, and I’m not sure we’re fully noticing it. Americans are starting to think the problems we are facing cannot be solved.
As has been her wont of late, Noonan is utterly clueless.
The reason that folks don’t thing the GOP or the Dems offer a solution is that it has finally ...
Minnesota Democrats Explained
Fraters Libertas —
The spending behavior of Minnesota politicians such as Al Franken and Betty McCollum have been discussed here in the past. Things such as tens of millions of dollars for libraries in Africa and hundreds of millions of dollars to hire scores of new vocational guidance counselors forthe public schools in the US. All this while the economy is in steep decline and in the face of multiple trillions in budget deficits already incurred for existing spending programs. When proposing these schemes, no mention is made of our ability to pay, other than comments such as: There are people who say that the richest most powerful country on Earth cannot afford to provide health ...
alicublog — CRAZY JESUS LADY NOW JUST CRAZY. Peggy Noonan says our leaders are too stupid to know that nothing they try will work, while her nameless friends in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries realize that the reanimation of her former boss Ronald Reagan will. As she is a nut, they're all nut graphs, but I'll represent this one here: When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and tax -- health care, cap and trade, etc. -- I think: Why aren't they worried about the impact of what they're doing? Why do they think America is so strong it can take endless abuseShe ...
Noonan Takes On The Boomer Class
GayPatriot —
While Peggy Noonan is normally Dan’s territory, I hope he will indulge me on this one. Reason being is that I’m now a self-created student of the “American Generations” after reading “The Fourth Turning“.
Noonan’s column today sums up exactly why, as a Gen X’er, I hold the Baby Boomers in such disdain and long for the day that they have exited our political structure. Noonan also echoes a lot of what Strauss and Howe said about the Boomers in “The Fourth Turning”.
Her column title sums it up nicely: We’re Governed by Callous Children.
And her last paragraph fits the Boomer Class ...
Our Government Class
The New Editor —
Peggy Noonan nails it:
When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and tax?health care, cap and trade, etc.?I think: Why aren't they worried about the impact of what they're doing? Why do they think America is so strong it can take endless abuse?
I think I know part of the answer. It is that they've never seen things go dark. They came of age during the great abundance, circa 1980-2008 (or 1950-2008, take your pick), and they don't have the habit of worry. They talk about their "concerns"?they're big on that word. But they're not really concerned. They think America is the goose ...
Uh Oh
Suburban Guerrilla —
The Magic Dolphin Lady’s into the liquor cabinet again.
Heretical Thoughts on Health Care Reform
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES October 30, 2009 A 1,990-Page Medical Monstrosity Investor's Business Daily October 30, 2009 We're Governed By Callous Children Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system,... more ›› October 30, 2009 Defining Moment for Health Care Reform Paul Krugman, New York Times O.K., folks, this is it. It’s the defining moment for health care reform. Paul Krugman A blog from The New York Times that tracks the health care debate as it unfolds. ...
