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Enough Already! Stop Trying to Grow Government

noonan to obama:

Oct 16, 2009 3:45 AM CDT

Enough Already! Stop Trying to Grow Government

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

(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,...

Noonan on
Reagan and Kennedy:
'Grace Met Grace'

opinion

Aug 28, 2009 6:53 AM CDT

Noonan on Reagan and Kennedy: 'Grace Met Grace'

How two political families forged a friendship across the aisle

(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,...

Obama Good at
Becoming Prez,
Not at Being Prez

OPINION

Aug 14, 2009 9:09 AM CDT

Obama Good at Becoming Prez, Not at Being Prez

(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...

Noonan to Dems:
Heed 'Mob,'
Hold Reform

OPINION

Aug 7, 2009 8:11 AM CDT

Noonan to Dems: Heed 'Mob,' Hold Reform

(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 see...

Krugman, Noonan Agree: Just Build on Medicare

OPINION

Jul 31, 2009 8:25 AM CDT

Krugman, Noonan Agree: Just Build on Medicare

We already have a fine government option

(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 subsidies...

Face It, GOP, She Makes Us
Look Stupid:
Noonan

OPINION

Jul 10, 2009 8:00 AM CDT

Face It, GOP, She Makes Us Look Stupid: 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...

Obama Needs Shorter To-Do List: Noonan

OPINION

Jun 26, 2009 7:22 AM CDT

Obama Needs Shorter To-Do List: Noonan

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

(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. “He preserved...

Noonan: Time for Republicans to Grow Up

OPINION

May 29, 2009 7:06 AM CDT

Noonan: Time for Republicans to Grow Up

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

(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 base....

Republicans Building Big, Empty Tent: Noonan

OPINION

May 1, 2009 8:02 AM CDT

Republicans Building Big, Empty Tent: Noonan

(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 is...

Leave Torture
to Historians:
Noonan

OPINION

Apr 24, 2009 10:02 AM CDT

Leave Torture to Historians: 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 House...

Obama Comes
Into Focus: Noonan

OPINION

Apr 3, 2009 9:27 AM CDT

Obama Comes Into Focus: Noonan

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

(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 consummate...

Noonan: Maybe Wall Street Was High on Xanax

OPINION

Mar 13, 2009 7:39 AM CDT

Noonan: Maybe Wall Street Was High on Xanax

Maybe money men were hopped up on anti-depressants

(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 ...

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

OPINION

Jan 30, 2009 10:20 AM CST

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

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

(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....

Handicapping the Race for Kristol's Times Slot

ANALYSIS

Jan 27, 2009 11:53 AM CST

Handicapping the Race for Kristol's Times Slot

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

(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:

David Frum: The former Bush speechwriter and

...

Noonan: A Solid,
Sober Beginning

OPINION

Jan 21, 2009 10:06 AM CST

Noonan: A Solid, Sober Beginning

(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 address...

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

OPINION

Jan 9, 2009 11:42 AM CST

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

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

(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...

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

OPINION

Dec 19, 2008 9:46 AM CST

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

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

(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...

Noonan:
Expect a Frugal Holiday

OPINION

Dec 12, 2008 7:41 AM CST

Noonan: Expect a Frugal Holiday

Nation not in an excessive mood

(Newser) - Will this be the last Christmas of the big-spending era? Will stalwart shoppers, who still can’t see this recession, grab big-ticket items, “sliding the platinum card along the counter with a ‘We who are about to die salute you’ flair”? Or will everyone hunker down for...

Noonan:
Be Thankful
We Don't See This

OPINION

Nov 28, 2008 1:10 PM CST

Noonan: Be Thankful We Don't See This

There's no apocalypse out there

(Newser) - This Thanksgiving, Peggy Noonan is thankful for what she’s not seeing. Despite the relentless glut of negative economic news, “everything looks the same,” she writes in the Wall Street Journal. There is no one selling pencils in the street, no children lining up in bread lines. “...

Noonan:
Obama Is Our Hail Mary Pass

OPINION

Nov 14, 2008 9:31 AM CST

Noonan: Obama Is Our Hail Mary Pass

(Newser) - America is buzzing, and apart from occasional chuckles about Sarah Palin, the buzz is all about one man: President-elect Barack Obama. “The idea has settled in that America just threw long,” writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. We gave the presidency to a man we barely...