On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:13:28 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

Remember a week or so back when Harry discovered that Peggy Noonan was
a "conservative" and one who should be listened to?

"What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an
uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democratic
response has been stunningly crude and aggressive. It has been to
attack. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of
Representatives, accused the people at the meetings of “carrying
swastikas and symbols like that.” (Apparently one protester held a
hand-lettered sign with a “no” slash over a swastika.) But they are
not Nazis, they’re Americans. Some of them looked like they’d actually
spent some time fighting Nazis…

All of this is unnecessarily and unhelpfully divisive and provocative.
They are mocking and menacing concerned citizens. This only makes a
hot situation hotter. Is this what the president wants? It couldn’t
be. But then in an odd way he sometimes seems not to have fully
absorbed the awesome stature of his office. You really, if you’re
president, can’t call an individual American stupid, if for no other
reason than that you’re too big. You cannot allow your allies to call
people protesting a health-care plan “extremists” and “right wing,” or
bought, or Nazi-like, either. They’re citizens. They’re concerned.
They deserve respect."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...s_opinion_main

Wow. I wonder if she's Harry's favorite conservative now?

Oh - anybody remember this - about dissent?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0

Hmmmmm......

Then there's this little gem. "We want to listen to everybody - except
that we don't want to listen to everybody only those who agree with
us."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyY3Y9vxR0

Come on 2010.

Peggy swings like a pendulum. If you followed her, you'd know that.

She's very savvy with the turn of phrase, very bright but she's apt to
be misled.

This fiasco and the attack of Sotomayor are both very bad moves that
will haunt the Rs in 2010 and beyond. Rs seem to have a lock on the
stupidty franchise at this point.