Well, a little LATE Peg. A tip of the hat despite your unnatural and revisionist fetish for Reagan. And yes, it's a few days late for me to catch since this was published Friday.
" ... The beginning of my own sense of separation from the Bush administration came in January 2005, when the president declared that it is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the world, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the liberty of every other nation. This was at once so utopian and so aggressive that it shocked me. For others the beginning of distance might have been Katrina and the incompetence it revealed, or the depth of the mishandling and misjudgments of Iraq. What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks."
Link for Noonan here:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/...
Wow, the keeper of the myth for Reaganism has finally flown the coop. Gosh, while you’re on your meds and you’re seeing clearly, please write about how torture ruins our high moral clarity and how Reagan raised taxes more than every orther president ever in his second term.
That’d be a start.
And while I have you here is a quote from a the Bush Administration FCC Chairman who actually said these words regarding the Bush Administration’s lackeys in the FCC in bold:
Mr.Kevin J. Martin, the chairman of the commission, attacked the panel’s reasoning.
"I completely disagree with the court’s ruling and am disappointed for American families," he said. "The court says the commission is ‘divorced from reality.’ It is the New York court, not the commission, that is divorced from reality."
He said that if the agency was unable to prohibit some vulgarities during prime time, "Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want."
Link here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Did you hear that? The thought of Hollywood having free speech.
Well, slowly the clock ticks and slowly the blanket is thankfully being pulled over the face of the Republican party.
When Peggy has dumped you. The party is over.