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Peggy Noonan Writes Vomitous Spew, Cashes Large Check, Swirls Bourbon in Glass, Sighs Wistfully
Peggy Noonan, the cloistered nun from the Order of Our Lady of the Perpetual Martini, has written a column of such bracing stupidity that it would shock us if it did not so closely resemble every other piece of hyperbolic twaddle spewing forth from every conservative anus right now like a molten flow of verbal diarrhea. Shall we all down a couple of beta-blockers and dive into it together?
"We are in the middle of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate."
Okay Pegs, let us stop you right there. Not all of us spent the 1980s in a laudanum coma, and we remember a bigger scandal called Iran-contra, which you might have heard something about, and maybe even written a few speeches for your boss to use to try and lie his way out of it. On a moral scale, does “the IRS gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups it suspected were trying to game the system to avoid paying taxes while engaged in political advocacy” really rise to the level of high Reagan administration officials up to and likely including the Gipper himself collaborating with Iran’s mullahs to keep Americans in captivity just to win an election, and then later buying those mullahs’ silence by selling them advanced weaponry and then funneling the money to right-wing death squads in South America? For that matter, if you need a more recent example, is it a worse scandal than lying to your country in order to gain support for a half-assed invasion that has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of people, drained our treasury, and further inflamed people who already hate us? If your moral scale is that out of whack, we’re going to suggest a recalibration is in order.
"We are in the middle of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate."
Okay Pegs, let us stop you right there. Not all of us spent the 1980s in a laudanum coma, and we remember a bigger scandal called Iran-contra, which you might have heard something about, and maybe even written a few speeches for your boss to use to try and lie his way out of it. On a moral scale, does “the IRS gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups it suspected were trying to game the system to avoid paying taxes while engaged in political advocacy” really rise to the level of high Reagan administration officials up to and likely including the Gipper himself collaborating with Iran’s mullahs to keep Americans in captivity just to win an election, and then later buying those mullahs’ silence by selling them advanced weaponry and then funneling the money to right-wing death squads in South America? For that matter, if you need a more recent example, is it a worse scandal than lying to your country in order to gain support for a half-assed invasion that has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of people, drained our treasury, and further inflamed people who already hate us? If your moral scale is that out of whack, we’re going to suggest a recalibration is in order.
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such arrogance is amusing...
"insufferable help" to James William Bottomtooth III.
I read your OP title as "Peggy Noonan Writes Vomitous Spew, Caches Large Chunk." 
for she routinely spews bilious and nauseating vomitous in heaping volumes imo. 
