It’s almost getting tiresome to me, this picking on Peggy Noonan for her naivete concerning Barack Obama. Almost. She’s coming around to the truth of Obama’s hard leftism and the phoniness of his HopeyChange campaign rhetoric slower than my quest to lose that extra 20 pounds I’ve been carrying around for five years. At some point, I expect Noonan’s BS meter to finally redline, and read a column in the vital Wall Street Journal in which her great talents are righteously unleashed on Obama. But no matter The One’s transgression, so far, Noonan never takes on the persona of a woman scorned. And scorned she has been. Alas, much of the right side of the blogosphere that still cares about Noonan’s work has been aflutter about her latest column, titled “Now for the Slaughter.” One would think such a headline means Hellfire follows. Alas, all we get is the flicking of a Bic. Noonan begins by accusing the Obama administration of being “bush league” (small “b”) for blowing off a trip to Australia and Indonesia so the president can stay in town to shepherd through bribe and threaten for passage his health care debacle. After Gibbs made the announcement this

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