Peggy Noonan writes, “We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care. There’s a new tone in the debate, and it’s ugly. At the moment the Democrats are looking like something they haven’t looked like in years, and that is: desperate.”

If what the Democrats are doing in response to the Republicans current disruptive tactics is to be described as desperate, hysterical would have to be the term to describe the Republicans’ behavior.  At times Peggy Noonan, former speech writer for Ronald Reagan has seemed reasonable in her column, but in seeing the reasoning she displayed in her recent column attempting to justify the actions of the insurance companies and the Republicans in trying to defeat the health care legislation it raises serious questions regarding her motivation. When does reason, integrity, and the good of the country, trump party lines and shilling for the insurance companies?

Reforming health care is a measure that has as its goal the rescuing of the American economy from a death spiral. Reducing health care cost means we will reverse the huge federal-state government program of health care for low income as well as for middle income residents in nursing homes. Costs in the program have been increasing about 7 percent a year, for years, far outstripping inflation, which as President Obama has said in a word it’s “unsustainable.”

Shouting down the speakers, raising a ruckus, which prevents any discussion or an explanation to those people who came there to ask questions and hear an explanation of the health care proposals and measures in the house bill, cannot be justified. Nevertheless Ms. Noonan attempted to do just that in her column and demonize the democrats for daring to attempt to counter this mob action largely generated by the lies and false interpretation of the health care bill by the republicans and the insurance companies.

She writes “And so the shock on the faces of Congressmen who’ve faced the grillings back home. And really, their shock is the first thing you see in the videos.” Since when did a group of people screaming and shouting all at once amount to a grilling? At what point is there information imparted other than the mob scene for the Youtube videos?

Noonan writes, The passions of the protesters, on the other hand, are not a surprise. They hired a man to represent them in Washington. They give him a big office, a huge staff and the power to tell people what to do. They give him a car and a driver, sometimes a security detail, and a special pin showing he’s a congressman. And all they ask in return is that he see to their interests and not terrify them too much. Really, that’s all people ask. Expectations are very low. What the protesters are saying is, “You are terrifying us.”

If the people are being terrified, it is not by the congressman who, with the interference of the screaming mob, is not being allowed to explain that he is trying to pass a health care bill that will reduce their health care cost, keep the insurance companies from sucking their economic blood, by using such measures as kicking them our for a pre-existing condition, and rescue the American economy from a ruinous downturn.

If the people are being genuinely terrified it’s by the lies and clever mischaracterization of measures in the health care bill by the Republican party and the insurance companies and the lobbying firms working to prevent the administration’s efforts.

Peggy Noonan is part of that sabotaging effort which is not in Americas’ interest but who knows what Ms. Noonan’s incentive is, after all she did vote for Sarah Palin. Who has posted one of the several lies being circulated that’s causing the heightened concern.  Palin has a totally shameless incendiary    talks about “Obama’s death panel” that going to kill old people.  The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

A commenter on the Huffington Post remarked “While we may not always support their success, most of us really do want our political figures to do better, and minimally, to be honest, and seriously to [be] mindful of not "shouting fire in a crowded theater." Palin has done the latter since being thrust upon us a year ago. So, yeah, I still blame McCain...”

Here’s an irony, the “death panel” idea that has been conjured up by republicans to scare people began with a living will proposal introduced by two republicans Senator Susan Collins and Congressman Johnny Isaacson of Georgia

One thing the Republican’s have been most skilled at, particularly since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights legislation is having a substantial number of ordinary white Americans vote against their self-interest.

Noonan writes, What has been most unsettling is not the congressmen’s surprise but a hard new tone that emerged this week. The leftosphere and the liberal commentariat charged that the town hall meetings weren’t authentic, the crowds were ginned up by insurance companies, lobbyists and the Republican National Committee. But you can’t get people to leave their homes and go to a meeting with a congressman (of all people) unless they are engaged to the point of passion.

Yes people are definitely concerned and passionate but Noonan is equating people attending the meetings seeking answers with the element that’s there to shout and disrupt the meetings.

Here is a paragraph that exposes Ms Noonan’s twisted logic and puts to rest any thought that she is intent on a reasonable analysis of this new Republican and insurance companies’ generated mob action. What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democratic response has been stunningly crude and aggressive. It has been to attack. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, accused the people at the meetings of “carrying swastikas and symbols like that.” (Apparently one protester held a hand-lettered sign with a “no” slash over a swastika.) But they are not Nazis, they’re Americans. Some of them looked like they’d actually spent some time fighting Nazis.

“Crude an aggressive” would be a more apt description of the shouting Republican mobs. How dare the democrats push back on this latest Republican offensive of lies and hooligan tactics, as Ms. Noonan is counseling.  However, she does herself one better when she denounces the White house asking people to send in emails that are spreading these lies and misinformation so that they can counter with the correct information and be aware of the lies being spread.

Noonan writes; But most damagingly to political civility, and even our political tradition, was the new White House email address to which citizens are asked to report instances of “disinformation” in the health-care debate: If you receive an email or see something on the Web about health-care reform that seems “fishy,” you can send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The White House said it was merely trying to fight “intentionally misleading” information.

Noonan would prefer the White house act in “our best political tradition’ and let the lies germinate and metastasize. Actually, it’s imperative that emails that are misleading the public should become a data base.  For the Obama administration to ignore these sources of misinformation would be political and governing malpractice.

In her column, Noonan makes one ridiculous point after another each increasing in its level of preposterousness. Here ‘s her next winner. “The Democrats should not be attacking, they should be attempting to persuade, to argue for their case. After all, they have the big mic. Which is what the presidency is, the big mic.”

It’s the little mics that are being drowned out in the town hall meetings, which makes it a bit difficult to persuade and argue when you have a screaming mob intent on preventing any meaningful dialogue. That’s what these congressmen have been attempting to do and that’s what the mobs have been working to sabotage and that is what Noonan is supporting in her Wall Street Journal column. Certainly her new boss must be pleased with his columnist coming through in the fair and balanced tradition of Fox News.  

Peggy Noonan through her column is attempting to run interference for that element that is working hard to undermine and defeat health care reform. To sum up what she is saying to the President and the democrats is “don’t fight back let us handle this. Good try Peggy, at least Rupert is reassured that you have read the new corporate play book. You are now officially a member of the mob.