"Everyone Has Gone Crazy In Washington"? - Nope, Only Trump And Apparently Peggy Noonan

 

Sheldon Whitehouse lays out  a dark money scheme to capture the Judiciary during the  Coney -Barret Senate confirmation hearing. Idiot WSJ  columnist Peggy Noonan compared it to a psychotic breakdown by Princeton mathematician John Nash as depicted in the film, 'A Beautiful Mind'

 In this post I return once more to the WSJ's Peggy Noonan, whose grip on political reality now appears to be fading with each passing week - and each drop in Trump's poll numbers.  In her latest essay,  'Everyone Has Gone Crazy In Washington' (Oct. 17-18, p. A13)  Noonan appears to have given up any semblance of common sense and resorted to total conflation mixed with ignorance, idiocy and propaganda.

This is given she is even now unable to recognize Trump as the real crazy one, or refuses to admit it.  Trapped in a weasel's world,  she resorts to calling "everyone" she can think of as 'crazy' based on recent behavior, forgetting or ignoring Trump's daily insanity.  Or maybe deliberately giving him a pass, with 13 days until the votes are tallied.

Miss Peggy starts out by targeting Nancy Pelosi - two full columns worth of bilge-  referring to a recent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer as "bonkers".   Adding:

"To watch was to witness, uncomfortably, the defensive aggression of an official who goes through life each day not being challenged enough."

 And what, pray tell, got Peggy's dander up to the point of being captive to such a rancid display of high dudgeon?  Well, it was  the House Speaker's refusal to accept Trump's $1.8 trillion for COVID relief, with Noonan asking:  "Why not accept the president's $1.8 trillion offer?"  

Well, uh, dummy, because  it wasn't a serious offer, it was a con. What you'd expect  from a liar, con man and grifter.  As I already pointed out in my October 17 post:

"This is a new gimmick package ... for $1.8 trillion (on paper) - but only  $1.2 trillion when the poison pills and corporate giveaways are stripped out.  Also, no help for cities- for fire departments, sanitation services, policing, etc., and no extension of unemployment benefits or resumption of the moratoria. "

Clearly, Peggy doesn't recognize a con when it appears, or else she's so under Trump's spell she'd let this useless offal pass - be given rubber stamp approval by Pelosi- merely to satisfy GOP optics. Well, fortunately Nancy Pelosi isn't low IQ like Noonan.  A charge confirmed when Noonan barks:

"It's wrong to hold hostage  people in immediate financial crisis!"

Indeed it is, Miss Peg, especially when the 'aid' being offered is glorified snake oil. 

Insufficiently embarrassed, Noonan then launches her next jab at Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, determined to prove her IQ is even lower than assessed up to now.  She scribbles:

"Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delivered a Rachel Maddow -style monologue on 'dark money'.  His data board linking 'phony front groups'   was wonderfully John Nash -like." 

Noonan here is trying to analogize the thorough and rational layout of Sen. Whitehouse's arguments at the Coney Barret hearing, with John Nash's newspaper smothered wall in the film 'A Beautiful Mind', e.g.

In which - during one of his paranoid schizophrenic episodes - Nash has papered over his office wall with disparate articles on differing events,  trying to trace a global conspiracy.  (In the image, the wall is shown to Nash's wife by his co-workers) Alas, if Noonan wasn't so dense, and/or better read, she'd have seen her comparison was totally specious.

Far from being a psychotic 30 minute ramble, Whitehouse cogently showed how the Repukes are using dark money in a process called "the Scheme" to get the biased courts they want. Citing the Washington Post, Whitehouse described a $250 million dark money operation designed to capture the courts and push cases to friendly judges in the hopes of favorable rulings. “Two hundred and fifty million dollars is a lot of money to spend if you’re not getting anything for it,” he said. “So that raises the question: What are they getting for it?” 

To answer that question, Whitehouse provided charts and bullet points that would make Mark Lane proud. One of his posters laid out the Republican Party’s own words explaining precisely what they wanted from judicial nominees: “A Republican president will appoint judges … who will reverse the long line of activist decisions—including Roe, Obergefell, & the Obamacare cases."

Whitehouse drew arrows with sharpies and explained in remarkably clear terms how anonymous money has fueled conservative legal advocacy groups like the Federalist Society and the Judicial Crisis Network that have spent millions cultivating and promoting conservative, ideological candidates like Barrett for the federal bench.

But this was clearly too much for Noonan's feeble brain, so she decided to disparage the Senator's robust effort by linking it to her "craziness" theme.   

Realizing by now she'd singled the Dems out for the craziness accusations, she knew that for optical balance she had  to include a Reepo example as well.  So this elicits the question: What constituted the GOP side of crazy? According to Peggy:

"They went on an on about her large family and motherhood in a way that seemed, subtly, to obscure the depth of her intellect. and the breadth of her command of the law."

Cheeze Louise, Peggy, no craziness on the part of Coney Barrett herself?  Like babbling in tongues to unknown spirit beings?  Or not being able to answer a question about the intimidation of voters?  A question any high school kid could have answered who'd taken a course in Government.   Oh no.  Peggy confined her "crazy" GOP accusation to the Reeps' obsession over Coney Barrett's large family e.g.

"They lauded her large family in a way that lacked finesse, by which I mean at times they sounded like Mussolini advancing pro-natalism as a matter of state." 

Wow!  "Mussolini pro-natalism" -  how hard did her pitiful neurons have to work to come up with that?  Never mind. Noonan's effort confirmed an essay written in bad faith, as just another lame excuse to pound the Dems with bogus crazy-  while pretending the GOP were not so crazy-   and ignoring  the 800 pound, totally crazy orange gorilla,  Trump.    Like how Trump is now calling on his toady Barr to arrest his political opponent, Joe Biden - for a "crime" he's not even stated -  the stuff of Banana Republics.  How did Noonan miss this latest insanity?  Well, maybe she's not "all there" herself, so Covid plus election stress is getting to her.

Worse, Noonan has already admitted multiple times how batshit nuts Dotard is, even advising him to resign barely two months ago.  She first called attention to the deranged fool in a March 8, 2018 WSJ column wherein she wrote:

"What you feel is disquiet and you know what it's about: the worrying nature of Mr. Trump himself...epic instability, mismanagement and confusion. We are not talking about being colorfully, craftily unpredictable...but something more unfortunate, an unhinged quality that feels like a screwball tragedy."

A "screwball tragedy"  - as in batshit CRAZY dumpster fire of a presidency. Thus, to now redirect her  "craziness" meme onto those like Nancy Pelosi and Sheldon Whithouse is the epitome of dishonest (yellow) journalism, giving a crackpot like Trump a pass while distracting reader attention- in stupid, uninformed ways - to two Democrats.

Shame on you, Miss Peggy. You need to have your journalist creds revoked.

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