++Noonan wants to remind everyone that the country had three consecutive terms of Republican presidents before the barbarians stormed the gates with the Clintons. She rehearses all the email scandal and Benghazi but she spends her time on Hillary as first lady.
++Instead of telling you what she says,I'll remind you that the Right said Hillary hung sex toys on the White House Christmas tree,had an affair with Janet Reno, and killed Vin Foster. Now that's something! During this time, Trump went bankrupt and had to be placed in a mental institution. Your Choice this fall!
Showing posts with label Peggy Noonan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peggy Noonan. Show all posts
Friday, September 16, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
++Moderates are a stunning 31% of the Republican Party. They are heavily college-educated and accept science and are concerned about climate change. It is the one bloc in the party that accepts the current sexual revolution. They are, however, conservative on taxes,immigration and regulation. I thought they had gone the way of the Do-Dos.
++I missed it but Peggy Noonan wrote a column about the creation of a new centrist party coming out of the GOP and disaffected Democrats. Ed Kilgore ridiculed this in an article for New York. He says no new political parties come out of a center and that there is no centrist Democrats who are disaffected.
++Greenberg, the Democratic pollster, said that "progressives" have to know how to manipulate the three civil wars going on within the GOP to maximize the gains during this year. One bloc to pick up is the "moderate " Republicans. Nearly 10% of GOP said they are voting for Hillary. Greenberg says that millennials know their values are at stake and will come out against Trump in big numbers because they know the score. Your mouth to God's ears. And he says all polling shows that African-Americans and Hispanics believe--rightfully--they are under attack.
++I missed it but Peggy Noonan wrote a column about the creation of a new centrist party coming out of the GOP and disaffected Democrats. Ed Kilgore ridiculed this in an article for New York. He says no new political parties come out of a center and that there is no centrist Democrats who are disaffected.
++Greenberg, the Democratic pollster, said that "progressives" have to know how to manipulate the three civil wars going on within the GOP to maximize the gains during this year. One bloc to pick up is the "moderate " Republicans. Nearly 10% of GOP said they are voting for Hillary. Greenberg says that millennials know their values are at stake and will come out against Trump in big numbers because they know the score. Your mouth to God's ears. And he says all polling shows that African-Americans and Hispanics believe--rightfully--they are under attack.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Peggy Noonan Doesn't Want To be Rude but
++she refers to the Bush campaign in the past tense saying he never had a broad base in the party and has never been a national figure. She argues that question was raised about Walker, now it is time to raise it about Bush. He doesn't like the rough and tumble of politics and has only been a state figure. He believes he should be better known because he's from a national political family. But it is not to be.
++Harry Etten at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight argues along a similar line saying that the problem with Bush's campaign is ,in effect, Jeb himself. His campaign can't make voters like him any better. Etten points out that JEB!'s favorables sink the further he campaigns. He's at Rand Paul levels now.
++Ed Kilgore, while playing the best hits of Grace Slick today,points out that the leaked memo about Rubio made a revealing statement about Jeb's Iowa campaign. Only 1,200 supporters is bad enough but Ed points out that they could only get 7 volunteers from 70,000 calls in a state where you must have organization.
++Jeb! says he feels fantastic and that his campaign is the best thing for someone like himself to grow intellectually,spiritually and morally. A Far cry from his I "have cooler things to do."
++But by mid-afternoon the campaign's CO was fired.
++Harry Etten at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight argues along a similar line saying that the problem with Bush's campaign is ,in effect, Jeb himself. His campaign can't make voters like him any better. Etten points out that JEB!'s favorables sink the further he campaigns. He's at Rand Paul levels now.
++Ed Kilgore, while playing the best hits of Grace Slick today,points out that the leaked memo about Rubio made a revealing statement about Jeb's Iowa campaign. Only 1,200 supporters is bad enough but Ed points out that they could only get 7 volunteers from 70,000 calls in a state where you must have organization.
++Jeb! says he feels fantastic and that his campaign is the best thing for someone like himself to grow intellectually,spiritually and morally. A Far cry from his I "have cooler things to do."
++But by mid-afternoon the campaign's CO was fired.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The Year Is Over--Senate Passes The Budget
++The Senate finally passed the Budget agreement by 64 votes to 36. This is the first bipartisan budget agreement since 1986. 55 Democrats voted for and 9 Republicans.
++Before it happened,slight hysteria hit the Senate floor as John McCain announced he would introduce legislation to Repeal and Replace the ACA. By the time he actually introduces such legislation,the ACA or Obamacare will be five years old. In case, you have missed it enrollment numbers are surging. So do all those who finally get insure, lose it if a McCain plan is introduced?
++Even before that, Peggy Noonan wrote an op-ed saying that President Obama would blow us all up because of incompetence.
++Paul Ryan says that the GOP will have a hostage to the debt ceiling--namely the Keystone XL pipeline. He repeated the GOP talking points on this boondoggle, which are all absolutely false.
++If anyone really thinks next year will see a more harmonious Congress you are deluding yourselves. Hatred of President Obama is now stratospheric and will remain so.
++John Podesta said that the teabaggers in the House are like those people at Jonestown. Naturally, this being Washington, he had to retract his quote.
++Andrew Sullivan at The Dish disemboweled Ron Fournier on his piece that Obama is at the same place Bush was in the second term.
++I guess we now wait for the NDAA and the Farm Bill. More Obama nominees have trickled in during the slow-motion foodfight in the Senate.
++I'll deal with President Obama in one of my next posts after I talk myself down from the eruption of GOP insanity.
++Before it happened,slight hysteria hit the Senate floor as John McCain announced he would introduce legislation to Repeal and Replace the ACA. By the time he actually introduces such legislation,the ACA or Obamacare will be five years old. In case, you have missed it enrollment numbers are surging. So do all those who finally get insure, lose it if a McCain plan is introduced?
++Even before that, Peggy Noonan wrote an op-ed saying that President Obama would blow us all up because of incompetence.
++Paul Ryan says that the GOP will have a hostage to the debt ceiling--namely the Keystone XL pipeline. He repeated the GOP talking points on this boondoggle, which are all absolutely false.
++If anyone really thinks next year will see a more harmonious Congress you are deluding yourselves. Hatred of President Obama is now stratospheric and will remain so.
++John Podesta said that the teabaggers in the House are like those people at Jonestown. Naturally, this being Washington, he had to retract his quote.
++Andrew Sullivan at The Dish disemboweled Ron Fournier on his piece that Obama is at the same place Bush was in the second term.
++I guess we now wait for the NDAA and the Farm Bill. More Obama nominees have trickled in during the slow-motion foodfight in the Senate.
++I'll deal with President Obama in one of my next posts after I talk myself down from the eruption of GOP insanity.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Before the Onslaught on Attack Ads begin
++Peggy Noonan asked why the Romney campaign has waited so long with their ads. By the time they air them people will want to tear out their eyeballs and stomp on the goo. Pretty close to the quote.
++Remember people are now voting for President in 31 states as I write. This early voting benefited President Obama last time and you wonder with the Romney campaign in a meltdown what that vote looks like now.
++A conservative e-mailed me with this plea,"With the foreign policy in the shitter, an additional $5 trillion in debt and 20+million out of work, we can't beat him?"
++While we wait for everything from the Obama ads on redistribution of wealth to Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres, Nate Silver is busy rummaging through his logrithmns and saying that Obama's post-convention bounce is over and that the President may actually do better in the popular vote than the electoral college. I gather this is Silver doing mind games to keep busy. Of course, his word of caution is with the President at the high 70% probability for re-election.
++USAToday/Gallup has Obama at 48 to 46.
Obama at 48-47 in Colorado
50-41 in Pennsylvania
50-46 in Virginia
51-45 in Wisconsin.
++AP/Gfk poll has Obama leading in likely voters 47 to 46. But the amazing finding is 52 to 37 for Obama in registered voters. Voters have a 56% approval rating for the President.
++Pew found Obama at 51 to 43 in likely voters; and 53 to 43 among registered voters. Also the enthusiasm gap has disappeared.
++In Wisconsin, Marquette found Obama with a 54 to 40 lead over Romney. Tammy Baldwin is at 50 to 41.
++The most amazing rumor of the day came from the Romney camp questioning how long they can hold out in Ohio since the polls are awful for them. Let's see Michigan, Pennsylvania,Wisconsin and then Ohio out of reach. Time to push the panic button.
++CNN/ORC surveyed Michigan and found Obama 52 to 44.
++Remember people are now voting for President in 31 states as I write. This early voting benefited President Obama last time and you wonder with the Romney campaign in a meltdown what that vote looks like now.
++A conservative e-mailed me with this plea,"With the foreign policy in the shitter, an additional $5 trillion in debt and 20+million out of work, we can't beat him?"
++While we wait for everything from the Obama ads on redistribution of wealth to Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres, Nate Silver is busy rummaging through his logrithmns and saying that Obama's post-convention bounce is over and that the President may actually do better in the popular vote than the electoral college. I gather this is Silver doing mind games to keep busy. Of course, his word of caution is with the President at the high 70% probability for re-election.
++USAToday/Gallup has Obama at 48 to 46.
Obama at 48-47 in Colorado
50-41 in Pennsylvania
50-46 in Virginia
51-45 in Wisconsin.
++AP/Gfk poll has Obama leading in likely voters 47 to 46. But the amazing finding is 52 to 37 for Obama in registered voters. Voters have a 56% approval rating for the President.
++Pew found Obama at 51 to 43 in likely voters; and 53 to 43 among registered voters. Also the enthusiasm gap has disappeared.
++In Wisconsin, Marquette found Obama with a 54 to 40 lead over Romney. Tammy Baldwin is at 50 to 41.
++The most amazing rumor of the day came from the Romney camp questioning how long they can hold out in Ohio since the polls are awful for them. Let's see Michigan, Pennsylvania,Wisconsin and then Ohio out of reach. Time to push the panic button.
++CNN/ORC surveyed Michigan and found Obama 52 to 44.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Before The Truce Fails
Tim Pawlenty says that the "elites" should stop criticizing Sarah Palin. It seems to me if you are a governor and a half-governor and someone who makes $15 million a year, you are a member of the elite. Maybe it's not deserved but you are. So what "elites" is Pawlenty talking about?
At least one is Howard Stern, who used his talents to blast Palin as a fake and several expletive deletes. Howard then said that whatever you think about Barack Obama you had to be proud of the man when he spoke in Tucson.
MSNBC had coverage that conservatives have finally accepted Barack Obama as President. I don't know how I feel about this. It's only been two years and the man handily beat John McCain, while the conservative hero George W. Bush won by one vote of the Supreme Court. But this whole theme only shows that conservatives feel entitled to political power and the presidency.
Since he failed to browbeat the Tucson Sheriff, Rushbo is now trying to intimidate the Fox news panel which praised the President's speech. Meanwhile, Clear Channel is going to take down Rush's "Straight Shooter" billboard.
No House Republicans would even comment on Palin's speech before the House's prayers for the victims. David Weigel says the whole party is embarrassed. But it seems to me the party never shut down the extreme rhetoric of the tea baggers so they are stuck with her.
Knowing she made a gaffe, Sarah Palin has consented to sit down for an interview with ace reporter--no, make that commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News. Talk about a tin ear, Palin has scheduled talking about the shooting on Martin Luther King, Jr. day.
Peggy Noonan, who has spent the last two years complaining Obama doesn't understand America, finally admitted his speech was more than excellent and significant.
The people of Tucson are miffed that the rest of us thought the memorial service was too much like a pep rally. People down there comment that they wanted a joyous occassion, somthing to celebrate, and were joyous the President came down. Who's to criticize?
Give credit to Rachel Maddow for using her show to probe both the mental illness aspects of the shooting and last night the issue of gun control. Whistling in the wind but it is important to frame the issue with the two subjects that loom large after the slaughter and actually have solutions.
The surgeons have done a superb job of briefing the media on the condition of the victims and the progress made by Gaby Giffords but what they say makes me uneasy. They always start at the top with the good news, which is a good technique, but if you listen long enough the true horror of the wounds and what the victims face in recovery become clear.
One leftwing blogger wrote that while the speech may have been Obama's best,she felt that Clinton delivered a better speech. I disagree. I think Clinton now is a better explainer than Obama of policies, but I found him to be boring back then. I also disagree that this was the best speech Obama has delivered. I still love his speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church about the Walls of Jericho delivered in the campaign. Others favor his Race speech.
Former Bush speechwriter Gerson writes today in the Washington Post that the shake-up in Obama's immediate staff will give him a second chance. I remind people this--the man has already achieved in domestic policy more than both Clinton and Carter combined. He also has outperformed in two years George W in his whole eight years. I love these arrogant pricks.
Oh, and yes, he has already created more private sector jobs than all 8 years of W. and by 2012 he will have surpassed the job creation of both Bush's combined--beat 12 years with his four. As Yogi said, you can look it up.
Have you noticed that the Right may have finally lost the moral high-ground? For years, it has tried to have the monopoly on national security, economics and family values. But you get a sense that they know with Tucson they lost it. While Obama's speech purposefully avoided assigning blame, the Right has been scrambling since Saturday's shooting to obfuscate the issue of their own vitriolic rhetoric. They have acted desparate, knowing they have lost big-time. This by the way happened after the Oklahoma City Bombing. The conservative talk show people were eclipsed for about a year or two.
Billy Graham's wayward son, Rev. Franklin Graham felt compelled to defend Sister Sarah because he had sponsored her trip to Haiti. You are missing the main narrative thrust of Palin if you do not see the Christian Right, especially the Dominionist, look at her as Esther. She is anointed and her line about "blood libel" signals that she will be persecuted. I'm not going to go into the eschatology of this. But it is scary.
When is Joe McGinness's book coming out on Sister Sarah? It would be useful for someone to penetrate behind her electronic wall and reveal her grifter lifestyle. I think we all need this as a public service.
The shooting and the Memorial broke the momentum of the new Republican House. Everything has been put on hold. Tuesday the House Republicans will start the vote to repeal the health reform bill. This was the bill for which Gaby Giffords was targeted by the Right. The GOP claims they will try to do this at a lower decibel.
President Obama has the wind at his back and he needs his State of the Union to be boffo box. He had lift in Tucson. He really needs political lift with his State of the Union Address. While he will talk about the tone of political debate, he really needs to reassure Americans that the country is not going down the tubes. He has to emphasize the Sputnik Moment as he and Secretary Chu talk about the challenges from China on clean energy and high-speed rails. He also has to reiterate the government's commitment to education. But here as in Tucson it will be the tone that will give him and us lift.
About all I see coming from this coming Congress is additional spending on infrastructure but nothing else. With the recent poll showing 71% of Americans opposing raising the debt ceiling, this rather mundane fact will be an unnecessary controversy. A right-winger e-mailed me about blocking the rise in the debt ceiling. I asked him why he never said anything the ten times it was done under George W.
At least one is Howard Stern, who used his talents to blast Palin as a fake and several expletive deletes. Howard then said that whatever you think about Barack Obama you had to be proud of the man when he spoke in Tucson.
MSNBC had coverage that conservatives have finally accepted Barack Obama as President. I don't know how I feel about this. It's only been two years and the man handily beat John McCain, while the conservative hero George W. Bush won by one vote of the Supreme Court. But this whole theme only shows that conservatives feel entitled to political power and the presidency.
Since he failed to browbeat the Tucson Sheriff, Rushbo is now trying to intimidate the Fox news panel which praised the President's speech. Meanwhile, Clear Channel is going to take down Rush's "Straight Shooter" billboard.
No House Republicans would even comment on Palin's speech before the House's prayers for the victims. David Weigel says the whole party is embarrassed. But it seems to me the party never shut down the extreme rhetoric of the tea baggers so they are stuck with her.
Knowing she made a gaffe, Sarah Palin has consented to sit down for an interview with ace reporter--no, make that commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News. Talk about a tin ear, Palin has scheduled talking about the shooting on Martin Luther King, Jr. day.
Peggy Noonan, who has spent the last two years complaining Obama doesn't understand America, finally admitted his speech was more than excellent and significant.
The people of Tucson are miffed that the rest of us thought the memorial service was too much like a pep rally. People down there comment that they wanted a joyous occassion, somthing to celebrate, and were joyous the President came down. Who's to criticize?
Give credit to Rachel Maddow for using her show to probe both the mental illness aspects of the shooting and last night the issue of gun control. Whistling in the wind but it is important to frame the issue with the two subjects that loom large after the slaughter and actually have solutions.
The surgeons have done a superb job of briefing the media on the condition of the victims and the progress made by Gaby Giffords but what they say makes me uneasy. They always start at the top with the good news, which is a good technique, but if you listen long enough the true horror of the wounds and what the victims face in recovery become clear.
One leftwing blogger wrote that while the speech may have been Obama's best,she felt that Clinton delivered a better speech. I disagree. I think Clinton now is a better explainer than Obama of policies, but I found him to be boring back then. I also disagree that this was the best speech Obama has delivered. I still love his speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church about the Walls of Jericho delivered in the campaign. Others favor his Race speech.
Former Bush speechwriter Gerson writes today in the Washington Post that the shake-up in Obama's immediate staff will give him a second chance. I remind people this--the man has already achieved in domestic policy more than both Clinton and Carter combined. He also has outperformed in two years George W in his whole eight years. I love these arrogant pricks.
Oh, and yes, he has already created more private sector jobs than all 8 years of W. and by 2012 he will have surpassed the job creation of both Bush's combined--beat 12 years with his four. As Yogi said, you can look it up.
Have you noticed that the Right may have finally lost the moral high-ground? For years, it has tried to have the monopoly on national security, economics and family values. But you get a sense that they know with Tucson they lost it. While Obama's speech purposefully avoided assigning blame, the Right has been scrambling since Saturday's shooting to obfuscate the issue of their own vitriolic rhetoric. They have acted desparate, knowing they have lost big-time. This by the way happened after the Oklahoma City Bombing. The conservative talk show people were eclipsed for about a year or two.
Billy Graham's wayward son, Rev. Franklin Graham felt compelled to defend Sister Sarah because he had sponsored her trip to Haiti. You are missing the main narrative thrust of Palin if you do not see the Christian Right, especially the Dominionist, look at her as Esther. She is anointed and her line about "blood libel" signals that she will be persecuted. I'm not going to go into the eschatology of this. But it is scary.
When is Joe McGinness's book coming out on Sister Sarah? It would be useful for someone to penetrate behind her electronic wall and reveal her grifter lifestyle. I think we all need this as a public service.
The shooting and the Memorial broke the momentum of the new Republican House. Everything has been put on hold. Tuesday the House Republicans will start the vote to repeal the health reform bill. This was the bill for which Gaby Giffords was targeted by the Right. The GOP claims they will try to do this at a lower decibel.
President Obama has the wind at his back and he needs his State of the Union to be boffo box. He had lift in Tucson. He really needs political lift with his State of the Union Address. While he will talk about the tone of political debate, he really needs to reassure Americans that the country is not going down the tubes. He has to emphasize the Sputnik Moment as he and Secretary Chu talk about the challenges from China on clean energy and high-speed rails. He also has to reiterate the government's commitment to education. But here as in Tucson it will be the tone that will give him and us lift.
About all I see coming from this coming Congress is additional spending on infrastructure but nothing else. With the recent poll showing 71% of Americans opposing raising the debt ceiling, this rather mundane fact will be an unnecessary controversy. A right-winger e-mailed me about blocking the rise in the debt ceiling. I asked him why he never said anything the ten times it was done under George W.
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