Peggy Noonan is a bright gal, of that there is no doubt, but that she is bright does not stop her from being blinded by her own biases. Case in point: an opinion piece, “The Heat Is On. We May Get Burned,” dated March 27, 2010, published in the Wall Street Journal, in which she says,
The beehive was already angry about a million things a year ago, and most of those things, obviously, were not the fault of the administration. People are angry at their economic vulnerability. They are angry at the deterioration of our culture, angry at our nation’s deteriorating position in the world, at our debts and deficits, our spending and taxing, our threatened security in a world of weapons of mass destruction. Their anger is stoked by cynical politicians and radio ranters and people who come home at night, have a few drinks, and spew out their rage on the comment thread. It’s a world full of people always cocking the gun and ready to say, if things turn bad, “But I didn’t tell anyone to shoot!”
And yes, this mood, this anger, has only been made worse by this yearlong, enervating, exhausting, enraging fight over health care. The administration is full of people who are so bright, and led by one who is very bright, and yet they have a signal failure: They do not know what time it is. They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.
Just to be obvious, let me repeat the signal lapse of the article: “They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.”
Throwing the bullshit flag on that one, Peggy. From the evidence, it is clear that they do “see how high the temperature is” and do “understand that they raise it.” From Rahm Emanuel’s clearly-stated desire to not “waste a good crisis,” to the shady deals, bully tactics and flat out lies perpetrated by The Ø and his minions and cohorts in crime, the only clear message is that they do understand what they are doing and believe that their tactics will win them their goals of expanded power over the lives of common citizens (known, more than likely, among their circle as “the little, unimportant people” and not The People). The fact that if one were to study the background of the people abusing their power to expand control over our lives and apply Occam’s Razor to understanding the strategy underlying their tactics, one would probably discover that the Cloward-Piven Strategy meets all the criteria needed to analyze the reasons for their tactics.
Cloward-Piven? Yes, Peggy, if you’d been paying attention outside the Beltway circle of “real-to-‘your-kind-ofpeople'” echo chamber, you’d have grasped long since the parrallels between The Ø!’s behavior since the day he took office and now and the plan for radicalizing American society that had a great deal of currency during The Ø!’s Columbia years by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Columbia professors of sociology. Simply stated, that strategy is,
[T]he strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. [T]he “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Every single thing The Ø’s administration and the Dhimmicrappic leadership have done in the last year points to following the precepts outlined in that strategy and hastening its fruition. Indeed, that last part, hastening the fruition of the strategy, has become the chief reason for pushing so hard to implement The Ø!’s Healthscare Bill: the sooner the collapse happens, the sooner The Ø! and his minions can assert draconian control to “restore order”.
The Ø! and his minions must push harder than ever now, they must manufacture more and worse “crises” in order to be able to make the ballot box even more irrelevant than it has already become in these days of blatant Dhimmicrappic cheating and Repugnican’t incompetence (and, not hard to admit, deaf ears of their own to constituents’ right, liberties and calls for representation).
These modern day traitors must poush harder than ever, else their treason will not prosper and they then be called to account for their treason.
The administration is full of bright people.
If they are so bright, then why don’t they see all these things Ms. Noonan says they don’t see? This dissonance in the punditry and press about smart people doing dumb things and dumb people doing smart things (see G.W.B.) has been driving me nuts.
I do think you are correct though, and it’s not that they don’t get it, it’s that they flat don’t care. They have bigger fish to fry that will make this resistance to their plans moot in the long run.
I think it is a strategic error of great magnitude to impute either good motives or lack of insight to these criminals, as Noonan continually does.