Noonan on America

I can't think about this when FENCES is closing today.

While I understand your questions, I do not understand their relationship to Ms. Noonan's great column.

The democrats did get a mandate in '08. What have they done with it?

If the Republicans win this year, it will be HUGE because it change everything about things work in Washington.

Peggy Noonan is loony.

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"Roxy, we are already living under a system that rations healthcare."

Brilliantly served. Sadly true.

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Not for Roxy. He and his wife get their health care. His position is not unique, and I get that there is fear that there is only so much to go around.

My view is that so many are busy protecting what they have, they do not realize that by failing to do nothing, they are compromising the very benefits they cling to.

Personally, I do OK. I have had the benefit of a quality public education, and an infrastructure that allowed my parents to give their children a better life. That infrastructure is under attack, and between the shrinking middle class and the attack on quality public eduction (from a variety of factors you can blame both right and left for the current situation), the path to a better life is being closed. From my selfish perspective, the lack of opportunities within the system compromises the livelihood of the system.

From my perspective nothing provides stability like inherent opportunity. Many do not see it that way - they see opportunity for others as necessarily costing them something. Some of us think the pie can get bigger.

There is very little "we" today, and a whole lot of "me". I personally think we need a better balance to be a functioning society.

*now waits for the accusations of being a socialist, communist ..., when what I think I am is a realist*

Updated On: 7/11/10 at 04:30 PM

With the obvious admissions that the Obama Health Care plan is (at its core) rationing, I wonder if everyone here supports this rationing?

Today, no senior citizens are refused care they might need because they are too old.

CountA it's rather bizarre that you'd post a column and call it "great" when you aren't able to recognize it's central thesis.

Noonan is bubbling over with gravitas that three elections in a off year signify a Republican tide- all the while dismissing the actual Democratic mandate scored in 2008. So I ask: What makes those three election victories so significant and the 2008 election insignificant.

Republicans will probably gain seats this year but will not score a majority in either chamber. It's telling that Noonan (w2ho has no function other than right-wing propagandist) wrote this column now, when Tea Party influence and membership is disappearing faster than the guacamole at a Rush Limbaugh cocktail party. Did you see all the coverage for the Tea Parties July 4th rallies? It looked like both Tea Baggers were still quite enthused.

And less than two years ago it was an EXCELLENT Time to be a Democrat. Things change. Pendulums swing. Someday, people will fall for Republican hokum again and they will be in charge. Will that time be 2012? No. 2014? Probably not.

The fact that Peggy Noonan gets paid to write such pointless tripe is a testimony to conservatives eagerness to be told what they want to hear.

As each day passes, Noonan seems more prescient.


They Brought This Up Again

Just read the Noonan article: she does have a point, even though it is touch on us dems.

I' not sure she is an idiot. Do you really believe that?
She Seems to know a lot

On the internets invented by Al Gore?