We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out.

[Wetzelbill]

Yeah, Nooner isn't pleased with Captain Dipshit. Welcome to the year 2000, Pegs. Color me surprised that a lifelong failure is also a failure as president. Couldn't see that one coming! -WB


PEGGY NOONAN

American Grit
We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out.

Friday, July 13, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

It's been a slow week in a hot era. I found myself Thursday watching President Bush's news conference and thinking about what it is about him, real or perceived, that makes people who used to smile at the mention of his name now grit their teeth. I mean what it is apart from the huge and obvious issues on which they might disagree with him.

I'm not referring to what used to be called Bush Derangement Syndrome. That phrase suggested that to passionately dislike the president was to be somewhat unhinged. No one thinks that anymore. I received an email before the news conference from as rock-ribbed a Republican as you can find, a Georgia woman (middle-aged, entrepreneurial) who'd previously supported him. She said she'd had it. "I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth." I was startled by her vehemence only because she is, as I said, rock-ribbed. Her email reminded me of another, one a friend received some months ago: "I took the W off my car today," it said on the subject line. It sounded like a country western song, like a great lament.

As I watched the news conference, it occurred to me that one of the things that might leave people feeling somewhat disoriented is the president's seemingly effortless high spirits. He's in a good mood. There was the usual teasing, the partly aggressive, partly joshing humor, the certitude. He doesn't seem to be suffering, which is jarring. Presidents in great enterprises that are going badly suffer: Lincoln, LBJ with his head in his hands. Why doesn't Mr. Bush? Every major domestic initiative of his second term has been ill thought through and ended in failure. His Iraq leadership has failed. His standing is lower than any previous president's since polling began. He's in a good mood. Discuss.

Is it defiance? Denial? Is it that he's right and you're wrong, which is your problem? Is he faking a certain steely good cheer to show his foes from Washington to Baghdad that the American president is neither beaten nor bowed? Fair enough: Presidents can't sit around and moan. But it doesn't look like an act. People would feel better to know his lack of success sometimes gets to him. It gets to them.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010326

[Moochy]

1. I blame Big Pharma

for his good mood. Better Living Through Chemistry!

[Wetzelbill]

7. I would say it's a lack of conscience

Sociopaths tend to sleep well at night. He seemed to think it was cute to mock Karla Faye Tucker and that was pretty sick. I think that is par for the course when it comes to this guy.

[kurth]

2. Firing a president is called impeachment

[mmonk]

3. Well the first step anyway.

[Wetzelbill]

4. I know I was thinking that when I read it

but Nooner's brain isn't wired that way. Not even if Bush somehow wanders into a blow job in the Oval Office. I mean, he's still a Republic, you know? It's not like he's Bill Clinton!

[ClassWarrior]

10. Freudian perhaps?

NGU.

[jimshoes]

5. He's the cat that ate the canary

and no one is going to smack his ass with a rolled up newspaper like he so rightfully deserves.

[blondeatlast]

6. When you're a supposedly "manly" Republican and Noonan criticizes you--

in the WSJ editorial pages, no less--you should be down for the count.

But this isn't the reality I grew up in.

[Solly Mack]

8. America is waiting out a wanna-be dictator

America is waiting out a war criminal
America is waiting out a criminal executive
America is waiting out a "war"
America is waiting out death and destruction

But America likes to pretend it is just waiting out a bad President, "failed policy", "bad intel" and "mistakes"...that everything happening under Bush Inc is just a "glitch" in the system ...that such things as war criminal wanna-be dictators occur under a representative democracy that was instituted with 3 co-equal branches of government to serve as a checks and balance to prevent one branch from assuming dictatorial powers, and a document of law and rights that is designed to prevent wanna-be dictators.

Land of the free and the home of the brave indeed

[bluerum]

9. He is a product of old money. He has NEVER had to worry about where the

next meal was coming from. Or pain. Or bills. The money always buys his way out of his fuck ups.

Daddy, daddies friends, the money and the sycophantic whores that follow the money are always there to re-enforce him and pick up his mess. He is simply not aware of the consequences of failure since he has never suffered from those consequences. As far as he can tell, everything is rosy and those that can't see that, well there must be something wrong with them. "They hate me because of my power and money - not because I have totally fucked up their lives".

So, he disdains those who disagree, pays his kiss ass yes men, and continues to not connect to the lives he has ruined and the destruction that he has wrought.

Sadly, it is not an act. The country is being run by a mad man.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

11. bluerum, I agree with everything you said with one exception.

The US is being run by two mad men.

[Nay]

12. He's in a good mood cuz he's a PSYCHOPATH, Peggy, you idiot.

And plenty of us KNEW he was a psycho (or, at least, evil) way before he got to be prez. Too bad you and your fellow wingers spent the last 6 years FELLATING this fucking monster.

[Wetzelbill]

15. you look at his execution record

and one can only come away with the idea that this guy is a psychopath or sociopath. The amount of people this guy has killed without conscience is frightening.

[ourbluenation]

13. part of me wants these shitheads to live with their vote all the way to the bitter end. n/t

[Hissyspit]

14. Hey, asshole. Shouldn't have been calling it 'Bush Derangement Syndrome' in the first place.

Those people were mad because they were more intelligent and insighful than you.

Noonan and others are on the trashing Bush bandwagon because it allows them to avoid acknowledging that is the right-wing IDEAS and ideology that are worng and failed as well.