High Noonan (cont.)

Seems I'm not alone in thinking Peggy Noonan was a little off her game in casting Obama as a failed Superman on the weekend.

Here's liberal Andrew Sullivan ("Noonan Unhinged"):

The premise of Noonan's moronic column is that the federal government, especially the president, should be capable of ending an oil-pipe rupture owned and operated by private companies, using technology that only deep-sea oil companies deploy or understand. And if such a technical issue is not resolved by government immediately, it reveals paralyzing presidential weakness and the failure of an entire branch of political philosophy. Again: seriously? It's Obama's fault that under Bush and Cheney, government regulation of oil exploration was so poor and corrupt, corner cutting appears to have been routine? And this, Peggy, is what governments do, even when run by crazy-ass liberals. Governments do not dig for oil; they merely regulate those who dig for oil. That the government failed to do so under the previous administration does not seem to me to be proof that this administration has failed.

And conservative Daniel Larison:

If a President does not actively 'take charge' and is not seen as 'doing something', he is ridiculed as weak and ineffective, when according to any vision of a less activist, less interventionist, less intrusive government the President would not involve himself closely in most events similar to this oil spill. It is a bit more absurd in the conservatives’ case. They are horrified by the tyranny of the individual mandate, but most otherwise seem content to demand the firm smack of a strong executive and the protections of an omnicompetent managerial state. Having mocked Obama’s more enthusiastic supporters for wanting him to be a savior of sorts, some Republicans seem genuinely annoyed that he has not been able to work miracles.

Comments

[Wascally Wabbit]

As her hero Ronnie Raygun used to say "there you go again Peggy"!

[David Olive]

I think it might be, "How's that ditzy, quitzy thing goin' for ya, half-governor, eh?" (Ronnie was a great mimic.)