Noonan disses White House

[BurtWorm]

Inside the White House they say, "We think big." Maybe. But maybe they're not thinking. They say, "We're bold." But maybe they're just unknowing, which is not the same thing. The bold weigh the price and pay it, get the lay of the land and move within it. The dreamy just spurt along on emotions."

An interesting take on Noonan's WSJ editorial can be found here:

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/7193.html

[Erika]

1. Even Noonan knows W has lost it.

And she's a spacy Reagan writer.

[BurtWorm]

3. She may be even more loyal to Bush's dad

whom Bush has dissed on more than one occassion.

[elehhhhna]

2. big & bold like a 3 y/o jumping from the roof--

while insisting her can fly.

Even from his hospital bed.

[sandnsea]

4. sucking kool-aid from a spigot

"It leaves friends on the outside having to self-censor or accept designation as The Enemy. It leaves a distinguished former government official and prominent Republican saying, in conversation, "Those people aren't drinking the Kool-Aid, they're sucking it from a spigot!"

Gee, ya don't say!! And yeah, if he's lost Nooner, he's sunk for sure.

Here's a direct link to the piece, it's just chock full of enlightened analysis. :eyes:

Not really, but good to know the blinders really have come off.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008260

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Scales are starting to fall from some eyes

...Lately I think the president could have used a time in his life when his father couldn't pay the rent. Such experiences tend to leave you unwilling to count on good luck coming, or staying.

<snip>

...The president has taken, those around him say, great comfort in biographies of previous presidents. All presidents do this. They all take comfort in the fact that former presidents now seen as great were, in their time, derided, misunderstood, underestimated. No one took the measure of their greatness until later. This is all very moving, but: Message to all biography-reading presidents, past present and future: Just because they call you a jackass doesn't mean you're Lincoln.

...And, just because your sycophants see you as the Second Coming, it doesn't mean that you're really anything but a spoiled, rich, drug-addled frat-boy with delusions of competence.

[scot]

5. You don't have to like Noonan's pov, to respect the fact that she

does call them as she sees them - she's bit his ass a few times lately - and she stays away from personal invective on all sides.

[bling bling]

7. Yeah, she's been doing a lot of that lately. Makes me suspicious.

The editorialists on the WSJ are the mouthpieces of the GOP. Noonan even took unpaid time off from the WSJ to campaign for shrubs re-election. When she starts writing articles that are unfavorable to Bush, I wonder what their plan is. They must see that Americans aren't buying the spin anymore and for them to continue their drool-fest over Bush would only jeapordize their credibility. My opinion is that the WSJ is dissing Bush to save the rest of the GOP. In an article a couple of weeks ago Noonan basically said that Bush isn't a conservative, insinuating that he's "liberal." If that's the angle they take they'll be able to justify all the mistakes made by this administration because Bush turned out to be a "liberal" in the end. And the dittohead types (who are the majority of the opinion journal readers) will buy it, and they'll be suckered yet again. "You can fool some of the people all of the time....."