She said it with a straight face

[BeatleBoot]

This is from Peggy Noonan in the WSJ (Reagan's former speech writer)...


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094104575144070064980374.html

What I keep thinking of is a beehive. A modern, high tech, highly politicized democracy is a busy beehive, and sometimes the bees are angry, and sometimes someone comes by and sticks a big sharp stick in the hive.

The biggest thing Washington should do right now is stop it, stop poking the stick.

The beehive was already angry about a million things a year ago, and most of those things, obviously, were not the fault of the administration. People are angry at their economic vulnerability. They are angry at the deterioration of our culture, angry at our nation's deteriorating position in the world, at our debts and deficits, our spending and
taxing, our threatened security in a world of weapons of mass destruction.

Their anger is stoked by cynical politicians and radio ranters and people who come home at night, have a few drinks, and spew out their rage on the comment thread. It's a world full of people always cocking the gun and ready to say, if things turn bad, 'But I didn't tell anyone to shoot!'

And yes, this mood, this anger, has only been made worse by this yearlong, enervating, exhausting, enraging fight over health care. The administration is full of people who are so bright, and led by one who is very bright, and yet they have a signal failure: They do not know what time it is. They cannot see how high the temperature is.

They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.

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Saw it on Bartcop.com

[DJ13]

1. The anger is due to the economic situation

In all seriousness, Obama should have spent the last year trying to solve the economic crisis fueling the anger on Main St. instead of working on a health care bill that forces those same people on Main St to have to buy insurance they cant afford until the economy improves.

His priorities were backwards, and mandates in an improving economy would have been an easier sell.

[Maccagirl]

2. Blaming the victim again

It's in their bone marrow. Peggy Noonan lives in her own little world called Reaganland after checking out of Hotel Reality around 1980. Yes, Peg, people are angry, but Obama and Co are not the people poking the stick.

[Nite Owl]

3. Typical conservative

who won't take any share of the blame themselves.

[baldguy]

4. They don't call her Crazy Peggy for nothing.

[old guy]

5. Peggy Noonan... WSJ....

'Nuff said