Peggy Noonan threatens to shed her Three Monkeyhood:
A lot of Bush supporters assumed the president would get serious about spending in his second term. With the highway bill he showed we misread his intentions.
The administration, in answering charges of profligate spending, has taken, interestingly, to slighting old conservative hero Ronald Reagan. This week it was the e-mail of a high White House aide informing us that Ronald Reagan spent tons of money bailing out the banks in the savings-and-loan scandal. This was startling information to Reaganites who remembered it was a fellow named George H.W. Bush who did that….
At any rate, Republican officials start diminishing Ronald Reagan, it is a bad sign about where they are psychologically. In the White House of George H.W. Bush they called the Reagan administration “the pre-Bush era.” See where it got them.
It’s interesting how some of the administration’s staunchest and most fervent supporters are beginning to get cold feet. No doubt they’re thinking about how Bill Clinton’s big supporters are regarded today. Another Republican blonde, Ann Coulter, seems to be reaching similar conclusions today as well.
History is the cruelest judge.
I find it more than a little ironic that the Republican masses will almost certainly continue to ignore my demonstrably more accurate analyses in favor of these more popular conservative writers. Remember these past track records when you encounter numerous pieces from Republican writers explaining how Hillary Clinton can’t possibly win the Democratic nomination or the 2008 election.