The Administration’s First-String Team
City Journal,
by
Myron Magnet
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
11/8/2019 3:37:07 AM
Like many Republican Trump voters, I rue the loss from the president’s inner circle of such wise advisers as John Bolton and John Kelly, but I think that two extraordinary recent speeches by Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo amply refute my esteemed friend Peggy Noonan’s weekend charge that the president’s management style has left him surrounded by only “a second-string, ragtag, unled army” of lieutenants. You would have to look back years to find such plainspoken foreign policy wisdom as Pompeo showed in his Hudson Institute speech on China last week, and surely few government officials since Lincoln have given speeches of such profundity
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 11/8/2019 5:57:21 AM (No. 229819)
Wow. The media and progressive attacks on religion and shared values, must stop. Great speech.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/8/2019 6:05:07 AM (No. 229824)
Well I stopped reading at my esteemed friend Peggy Noonan. People like Prissy Peggy are the problem. They look down their noses at anyone who does not meet their patrician standards. They cannot abide that someone they believe to be inferior has risen to the top. Clear common sense rational thinkers are actually looked down upon by those sitting high above breathing the rarified air of the ruling class. Men and women who get things done and actually work hard for this country are so passé. The one thing that this President has done has been to expose the ruling class mentality in the Republican Party. It offends their delicate sensibilities to have someone leading this country who puts the interests of this nation and its people first. The corruption, massive debt, endless wars, theft of taxpayer money is the status quo not something to confront. We have seen what a man of action is capable of even when he goes against all odds and we will not be satisfied with the mediocrity that the Republican Party has offered in the past. It is astounding what the right leader at the right time can do. Those who stand on the sidelines throwing insults regarding his demeanor or fitness for the job which is another way of saying he’s not one of us expose themselves as part of the problem. The ruling class is being owned by the leader of the country class and that’s gotta hurt.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/8/2019 7:02:15 AM (No. 229864)
LaNoonan has apparently decided she'll take down anything necessary to get at Trump. She's gonna make a great Democrat.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Judy W. 11/8/2019 7:14:06 AM (No. 229876)
Really sad how readers are fixated on Peggy Noonan and don't read the article about two truly great Trump appointees.
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Ironically, I stopped regularly following Ms Noonan about the time her unrequited love for The TelePrompTer Of The United States Barack Obama became a regular feature of her columns. But at the time she was writing about the IRS scandal. Something she wrote stuck with me:
'The country can survive a corrupt agency. It cannot survive a corrupt government.'
Whether you believe this or not (and I'm not sure I do) then surely the years since the IRS scandal have proven beyond all doubt that this IS a corrupt government from the highest elected and appointed office holders to the lowliest bureaucrat. All of them are strangely compelled to view the people who elected them and pay their generous wages as the enemy to be abused, spied on, tied up in red tape and generally detested.
Coming up with derisive names for The Other is a regular psychological feature of war, from redcoats to blue bellied devils to krauts to g*oks and beyond. Dehumanizing the enemy reduces or eliminates guilt associated with fighting and even killing them.
Look at today's 'dialogue' and you see the same thing in DC. Calling the most gentle, normal God-fearing Americans racists, sexists, homophobes, gun nuts etc. resolves the psychic tension in a twisted, diseased mind like Jim Clapper's and gives him license to commit acts that a) are criminal by statue and b) he probably wouldn't otherwise commit.
Yes, Ms Noonan, we have a corrupt government. It would actually be a relief if the corruption were strictly financial like Chicago cops taking payoffs from Al Capone. But this government is corrupted by ideology and a lust for power. It is the very sort of government referenced in the Declaration. And the Declaration also prescribes a solution:
'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.'
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LesUNo 11/8/2019 7:49:59 AM (No. 229911)
Oh my goodness. Excellent article about two outstanding men. Truly historical and not the repetitive political drivel we all read over and over.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/8/2019 8:23:54 AM (No. 229943)
It may be safe to say that the eternal ingenue nose of Frau Noonon is out of joint because nobody comes to her for advice as all alone she sits screeding in her nightshirt drinking her sassy-frass lemon tea. It isn't safe to say that anyone will read her past the by-line. It occurs to me that President Trump's picks may not have been his best picks nor his eventual picks, nor even his second term picks. Like that Noonan lady, we'll get over it and move on (to coin a phrase.)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 11/8/2019 8:38:54 AM (No. 229957)
These are two great men. Good article.
That being said, the comment stream sure took a turn and got off the subject of the article which was Barr and Pompeo.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Franz 11/8/2019 9:15:07 AM (No. 229989)
Peggy Noonan takes offense at President Trump's blunt style of governing. She prefers a more refined approach.
Well, I prefer an honest straight forward style apposed to polished politicians who sip their tea with little finger extended and in pleasing words lie to my face.
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Noonan is an elitist always was always will be. SHe thinks she is better than everyone else and that her opinion really matters. I doubt most people even know who she is outside the NYC circle of nitwits and the DC dimwits.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BachBone42 11/8/2019 9:19:11 AM (No. 229995)
We Need More People Like: Capt. Moses William Hirschkowitz
http://www.ns-savannah.org/nssa.pl?page=eightbells
NOT Liberal/Socialist/Communist Elitists Like Never-Trumper @Peggynoonannyc (the "nyc" says it All), or @BillKristol & @SykesCharlie (This Comedy Tag-Team Has Been Performing Nightly in the #TheBulwark Piano Lounge Onboard The SS NeverTrumper since @realDonaldTrump Announced He was Running for POTUS!
#TrumpLandslideVictory2020
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Arby 11/8/2019 9:56:47 AM (No. 230037)
The Donald may be a little too quick to hire but he's also quick to fire when things aren't quite working out. As to Peggy, she has succumbed to the NYC swamp and wants to continue to be invited to the 'right' dinner parties. Peggy's train left the station many years ago. As always, those who criticize DJT are criticizing tone and process (the only things that matter to cringing bureaucrats). The real world looks at results and DJT delivers them endlessly. And no, we're not getting tired of winning.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 11/8/2019 11:52:02 AM (No. 230151)
I caught some video of Pompeo answering a question about China and his remarks mirrored his Hudson speech. He is very disciplined and stresses the reality of China's one-sided trade policies and appropriation of intellectual properties. He also stays away from the usual diplomatic-speak and represents the President's foreign policy with readily understood language and a demeanor that demands business get done. He is the best Secretary of State I've ever known.
AG Barr's speech on religious freedom was masterful. As the article states, it is not often an AG tackles the philosophy of governance with such grace, style and understanding. Barr could have easily framed his subject as a review of court decisions and judicial writings, but instead he spoke of the Natural Law to which all human law should comport. After reading his speech I have nothing but confidence that he is 100% in our, and the President's, corner. He is a man of God and Faith, and knows he is fighting evil, not just political opponents. I trust Trump, Pompeo and Barr because I trust God.
MAGA - Pray. Pray hard.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/8/2019 12:12:23 PM (No. 230175)
So much about reference to Noonan. It's only one line and quite a good column.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 11/8/2019 12:40:40 PM (No. 230197)
Hmm. I never trusted John Kelly, and Noonan gets no esteem from me.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
iamshazzam 11/8/2019 3:21:38 PM (No. 230299)
It has been evident for a long time that noonan has put her 3rd string brain cells in charge of her thinking.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
qr4j 11/8/2019 3:43:42 PM (No. 230313)
Polished excrement is still excrement. Ms. Peggy has pushed out a lot of it in the past several years.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
wildcat1 11/9/2019 12:09:59 AM (No. 230522)
Pompeo is my former Congressman. Glad to see him doing well as Secretary of State.
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Wonderful men. We are lucky to have them. I am sorry that Magnet esteems Peggy Noonan, though. I guess it’s a New York thing.