Read more Peggy Noonan stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/22042/peggy-noonan.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:49:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73441/voters-punished-obama-dems-for-going-deaf.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Democratic Party should view its walloping in Tuesday's election as an opportunity to start listening before it's too late, writes Peggy Noonan . The Democrats have been focusing on the wrong issues since they gained power last year and that explains the huge swing to the Republicans in Virginia and...http://www.newser.com/story/73441/voters-punished-obama-dems-for-going-deaf.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 5:19:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72889/stupid-leadership-has-sapped-americas-hope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe economy's growing again but the people Peggy Noonan talks to—"the American leadership class who are not in Washington, most especially those in business"—have lost their confidence that a turnaround is coming. That's because they don't think the government has any solutions to America's problems other than tax-and-spend,...http://www.newser.com/story/72889/stupid-leadership-has-sapped-americas-hope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 3:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72374/its-not-bushs-mess-anymore.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama needs to stop complaining that he inherited a mess and realize that the mess is now all his, writes Peggy Noonan. The White House is once again reminding people what dire straits the country was in when Obama's presidency began, but—as the president's free-falling poll numbers prove—...http://www.newser.com/story/72374/its-not-bushs-mess-anymore.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 5:47:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71829/enough-already-stop-trying-to-grow-government.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration hasn't just misjudged the national mood by trying to push through health care reform in the middle of a recession, it's misjudged the whole era we're living in, writes Peggy Noonan. This isn't the '30s, when income tax was new and the federal government was still lean,...http://www.newser.com/story/71829/enough-already-stop-trying-to-grow-government.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 3:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67988/noonan-on-reagan-and-kennedy-grace-met-grace.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPeggy Noonan recounts the unlikely friendship of the Kennedys and the Reagans and the time "grace met grace"—when President Reagan ventured to Ted's house in 1985 to make a speech honoring JFK and raise money for his new library. "A friendship that had already begun deepened," writes Noonan in...http://www.newser.com/story/67988/noonan-on-reagan-and-kennedy-grace-met-grace.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 6:53:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66879/obama-good-at-becoming-prez-not-at-being-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama doesn’t look like a unifying centrist anymore. At his suspiciously adoring health care town hall meeting, Obama “seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics, who is finding out day by day that he isn’t,” writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal . “He...http://www.newser.com/story/66879/obama-good-at-becoming-prez-not-at-being-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Aug 2009 9:09:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66315/noonan-to-dems-heed-mob-hold-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmericans everywhere are storming town halls to heckle their congressmen over health care, and that shouldn't come as a surprise. “They hired a man to represent them in Washington,” explains Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal . “And all they ask in return is that he see to their interests...http://www.newser.com/story/66315/noonan-to-dems-heed-mob-hold-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 07 Aug 2009 8:11:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65747/krugman-noonan-agree-just-build-on-medicare.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEveryone's suddenly allergic to letting the government into health care, but Paul Krugman has news: The government is already knee-deep in health care, he writes in the New York Times . It's called Medicare, and without it almost no one over 65 would be covered. You can also thank tax subsidies...http://www.newser.com/story/65747/krugman-noonan-agree-just-build-on-medicare.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 8:25:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64017/face-it-gop-she-makes-us-look-stupid-noonan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSarah Palin's resignation is the perfect opportunity for the Republican Party to leave the drama queen behind, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journa l. She may be “a gifted retail politician,” but “she makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated." She isn't thoughtful, and...http://www.newser.com/story/64017/face-it-gop-she-makes-us-look-stupid-noonan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 8:00:57 CDT