A Very Few Rare Words of Lucidity from Peggy Noonan

Despite my reservations about Peggy Noonan's lucidity in the past six months or so, she managed to write a few sentences of clarity this month.

Last weekend, she penned a mostly mawkish personal survey of economic malaise on the upper East side of New York City.

Buried near the end of her mostly-boring piece, however, were a few paragraphs starkly contrasting Chesley Sullenberger and Nadya Suleman, a/k/a "octomom."

Noonan slyly offered as a test of real national depression that people think America is becoming more represented by the Sulemans than the Sullenbergers. It's a clever backdoor approach to noting the current state of behaviors of some lower-income Americans, after decades of a calculated assault on prior American values by liberal Democrats.

The other noteworthy few sentences from Noonan occurred a weekend or two before this past one.

In a single column, she blasted the stimulus bill, Wonderboy and Frisco Nan. It was pretty good stuff, if very rare and, one suspects, almost accidental.

Noonan rightly painted Nan as just a hacked up pol from San Francisco who doesn't really understand the solemnity and importance of being Speaker of the House of Representatives.

She similarly chided Wonderboy for backing the very sloppy, pork-ridden bill Frisco Nan authored. Noonan believes Americans have had it with excess of all sorts, and that the current Democratic leaders in Congress and the White House are busy indulging themselves, at great risk to their political futures.

On this point too, I am agreement with Noonan.