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Krugman schools Noonan: Don’t negotiate with Republicans who want to ‘blow up the world’

Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Sunday explained to Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan that she was wrong to slam President Barack Obama for not compromising with Republicans on the debt ceiling because you don’t negotiate with “hostage takers” who are trying to “blow up the world economy.” “The…

RNC chairman Reince Priebus: ‘We’ve got specifics coming out our eyeballs’

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus claimed on Sunday that his party had a “good week” after video surfaced of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney insulting 47 percent of Americans, and said that the presidential candidate didn’t need to offer more details about his policies because “we’ve got specifics coming out…

Romney: Presidential ambition ‘like a sport for old guys’

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he’s not very good at sports so he’s running to be commander-in-chief instead. “I like competition, and I think the game is like a sport for old guys,” the candidate told The Wall Street Journal‘s Peggy Noonan in an interview published Thursday. “I…

You Could Have Saved All Of Our Time

Peggy Noonan’s entire post-presidential speechwriting career could pretty much be summed up as “I like things that remind me of things that I like about things,” and we wouldn’t lose a beat. Reading this TNR paean to her her rhetorical skills is intriguing. And yet. I’ve known a few people…

Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Peggy Noonan writes. I apologize in advance. 2008 will prove in part to be a decisive political contest between the Dichotomy I Just Created. Between the thing I wanted to make a point about, and other thing which is the opposite of what I wanted to make a point about.…