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NEWS ABOUT: Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan stories: 57 news summaries

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PEGGY NOONAN

 Voters Punished Obama, 
 Dems for Going Deaf 

Election should be a wake-up call for out-of-touch White House

Nov 6, 09 5:19 AM CST
(Newser) - The Democratic Party should view its walloping in Tuesday's election as an opportunity to start listening before it's too late, writes Peggy Noonan . The Democrats have been focusing on the wrong issues since they gained power last year and that explains the huge swing to the Republicans in Virginia and... More »

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Jon Corzine • recession • Republican Party • health care reform • Peggy Noonan • Democratic candidates • Obama administration • President Obama • election day November 2009

PEGGY NOONAN

 'Stupid' Leadership 
 Has Sapped 
 America's Hope 

Business is losing faith as government spends like spoiled kids

Oct 30, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The economy's growing again but the people Peggy Noonan talks to—"the American leadership class who are not in Washington, most especially those in business"—have lost their confidence that a turnaround is coming. That's because they don't think the government has any solutions to America's problems other... More »

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government spending • Federal government • Peggy Noonan • Obama administration • taxation

PEGGY NOONAN

 It's Not Bush's Mess Anymore 

Obama needs to stop complaining about what he inherited, start fixing it

Oct 23, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama needs to stop complaining that he inherited a mess and realize that the mess is now all his, writes Peggy Noonan. The White House is once again reminding people what dire straits the country was in when Obama's presidency began, but—as the president's free-falling poll numbers prove—... More »

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Bush administration • Peggy Noonan • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama

noonan to obama:

Enough Already! Stop Trying to Grow Government

We're already too crowded with social problems; no room left

Oct 16, 09 3:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration hasn't just misjudged the national mood by trying to push through health care reform in the middle of a recession, it's misjudged the whole era we're living in, writes Peggy Noonan. This isn't the '30s, when income tax was new and the federal government was still lean,... More »

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health care reform • Max Baucus • budget deficit • Federal government • Peggy Noonan • Obama administration • Paul Ryan

opinion

 Noonan on 
 Reagan and Kennedy: 
 'Grace Met Grace' 

How two political families forged a friendship across the aisle

Aug 28, 09 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan recounts the unlikely friendship of the Kennedys and the Reagans and the time "grace met grace"—when President Reagan ventured to Ted's house in 1985 to make a speech honoring JFK and raise money for his new library. "A friendship that had already begun deepened,... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Ronald Reagan • Nancy Reagan • Kennedy family • Peggy Noonan

(Newser) - Barack Obama doesn’t look like a unifying centrist anymore. At his suspiciously adoring health care town hall meeting, Obama “seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics, who is finding out day by day that he isn’t,” writes Peggy Noonan of the... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • bipartisanship • Peggy Noonan • President Obama

(Newser) - Americans everywhere are storming town halls to heckle their congressmen over health care, and that shouldn't come as a surprise. “They hired a man to represent them in Washington,” explains Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. “And all they ask in return is that he... More »

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health care • Democrats • protests • health care reform • Peggy Noonan • protesters

OPINION

Krugman, Noonan Agree: Just Build on Medicare

We already have a fine government option

Jul 31, 09 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone's suddenly allergic to letting the government into health care, but Paul Krugman has news: The government is already knee-deep in health care, he writes in the New York Times. It's called Medicare, and without it almost no one over 65 would be covered. You can also thank tax... More »

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Medicare • FDR • health care reform • Paul Krugman • Peggy Noonan

(Newser) - Sarah Palin's resignation is the perfect opportunity for the Republican Party to leave the drama queen behind, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. She may be “a gifted retail politician,” but “she makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated." She... More »

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resignation • Republican Party • Peggy Noonan • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Obama Needs Shorter To-Do List: Noonan

Prez must fix the economy and keep us safe—and that's it

Jun 26, 09 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Confidence in Barack Obama is fading fast for many reasons, but above all it’s because he's not tending to "The Sentence,” writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Clare Boothe Luce once said that all great leaders are summed up by a sentence. “... More »

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Barack Obama • history • domestic policy • ambition • Peggy Noonan

OPINION

Noonan: Time for Republicans to Grow Up

Sotomayor hearings
a time for debate, not attacks by 'idiots'

May 29, 09 7:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings are coming up, and Peggy Noonan has some advice for Republicans: play grown-up. “Some, and they are idiots, look at Judge Sotomayor and say: attack, attack, kill,” she writes in the Wall Street Journal. One told her the fight would excite the... More »

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confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Peggy Noonan • Republicans • Sonia Sotomayor

OPINION

Republicans Building Big, Empty Tent: Noonan


May 1, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Arlen Specter gone, it’s time for the "latest round of What Should the Republican Party Do," writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Call Specter an opportunist if you want, “but opportunists tell you something: which side is winning.” The Republican party... More »

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conservative • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • Peggy Noonan

(Newser) - On foreign policy, it’s “so far, so good” for President Obama’s first 100 days, writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. (Domestically, “there are only so many ways to say ‘Oy.’”) But the torture debate appeared to catch the White... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • CIA • torture • harsh interrogation • Peggy Noonan • Obama administration

OPINION

 Obama Comes 
 Into Focus: Noonan 

At home, Obama's plans are grandiose, Noonan says

Apr 3, 09 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Part of President Obama’s power has always been his cool mystique, writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. Difficult to classify, “he seemed something refreshing: a mystery.” But nothing clarifies like actions and decisions, “and he’s been quite the decider.” Though the... More »

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Barack Obama • domestic policy • Peggy Noonan • Obama administration • President Obama

OPINION

Noonan: Maybe Wall Street Was High on Xanax

Maybe money men were hopped up on anti-depressants

Mar 13, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan has a novel explanation for the crash (“or the great recession, or the collapse—it’s time it got its name”): What if the bankers were all hopped up on happy pills? Antidepressant use became widespread in New York after 9/11, she notes in the Wall ... More »

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depression • antidepressant • Peggy Noonan • economy • financial crisis • recession depression • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

Pols Just Don't
Get It: The
Party's Over

Pork-laden bill is as
bad as those bloated bonuses: Noonan

Jan 30, 09 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan has discovered a new disease. She calls it “Goldmansachs Head,” and when you have it, “the party’s never over.” People with GSH fly private jets to bailout hearings, give bonuses as the company tanks. A GSH sufferer “has everything but a watch.... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • economic stimulus package • Peggy Noonan

ANALYSIS

Handicapping the Race for Kristol's Times Slot

Ex-Bush speechwriter Frum heads pack that may include Noonan, Limbaugh

Jan 27, 09 11:53 AM CST
(Newser) - At the New York Times op-ed page, William Kristol is out; that leaves a spot open for another conservative to keep David Brooks company, writes Michael Calderone in Politico. Times editor Andy Rosenthal wouldn’t comment, but Calderone has guesses on a replacement:
  1. David Frum: The former Bush
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New York Times • Rush Limbaugh • columnists • Peggy Noonan • op-ed • David Frum • Megan McArdle • William Kristol • Byron York • Ross Douthat

OPINION

 Noonan: A Solid, 
 Sober Beginning 


Jan 21, 09 10:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s first speech as president was not “a joyous audacious document, not a call to arms,” writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal, “but a reasoned statement by a Young Sobersides.” That’s not a criticism: Moderate and moderated, Obama’s... More »

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Barack Obama • inauguration • Peggy Noonan • President Obama • inaugural address

OPINION

Get Behind President—but Don't Idolize Him: Noonan

Speaking truth to power, not getting tongue-tied, more important now than ever

Jan 9, 09 11:42 AM CST
(Newser) - When Barack Obama spoke of his stimulus plan yesterday, he did it with authenticity and optimism, saying Americans could and would fix this mess. Peggy Noonan agrees. “This is not a nation of 300 million people on a morphine drip,” she writes in the Wall Street Journal. Noonan... More »

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Barack Obama • speech • economic stimulus package • Peggy Noonan • economy

OPINION

 Noonan: 
 Don't Panic, 
 We're Still America 

From Madoff to Detroit, people feel it's all collapsing, and they're wrong

Dec 19, 08 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - From Bernard Madoff to Rod Blagojevich, Americans have lost faith in the people running things. “It’s the age of the empty suit,” one of Peggy Noonan’s friends mused recently. Our institutions have proven impotent and absent, and now “people feel all trends lead downward from... More »

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America • Peggy Noonan • patriotism • hope • Bernard Madoff

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