It's all about message control in Noon-town, and what a message it is.
"Republicans should stop taking the boob bait of the press."
Moving right along... It seems that the press isn't doing it's job, namely criticizing the Affordable Care Act. For some reason Democrats aren't doing that either.
"Democrats aren’t talking about that, at least on the record, and none of them colorfully."
Worse yet, they aren't "colorfully" disparaging themselves, almost as if they know what they're doing. "They’re in the domestic political/policy debacle of their lives and their reaction is discretion." Which is a vice at the moment, it seems.
"More than four years ago, in July 2009, I wrote a column in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered President Obama some wisdom on health care." Clearly, history will remember July 2009 as the month when FDR appeared to Barack Obama, droppin' some serious wisdom.
"But FDR had an idea—a sly one, as his ideas usually were." FDR, who obviously is doing all this in the real world and not just in Peggy Noonan's head. "I still believe FDR was more or less right." OK, maybe this is the FDR of Noonan's feverish dream, but still, he has wisdom and what-not, so he's almost as good as the real thing.
Blah, blah, if only Obama had just worked with Republicans things would be great, Paul Ryan had a great health care plan that didn't just involve personal savings accounts in which poor people could stockpile all their accumulating wealth from capital gains.
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