Sunday Morning Comin' Down -- UPDATE

"Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Merlot" edition.

The reason you did not see Peggy Noonan on "This Week..." this week is that the Merry Queen of Sots packed up her breathlessly ominous wingnut doubletalk and Shroud of Turin style-book and toddled on over to tipple from the "Meet the Press" complimentary beverage cart.  

David Gregory, of course blathered on about "polarization" and "tone", which as we all know is Villager code for "I refuse to let anything substantive interrupt our little circle jerk":

GREGORY: Peggy, I come back to this tone though, because it does-- this polarization does matter. It does seem even more polarized and it’s got to have some impact on A, you know, are there moderates who actually show up and vote, and who do they vote for, and then how you govern after this kind of condition?

While Peggers emoted up a sighing storm about her feelings.  As usual, she was tipsily delighted to stay at least twice removed from reality at all times, and airly tossed around her  squirrel-using-a-Ouija-board beliefs about what she "sensed"  a group called "the American people"  were "feeling" about stuff...

...right up until she got burned down to her shoe-buttons by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.  



But don't worry about Peggers: as far anyone can tell, repeatedly faceplanting hard enough to crack the Earth's mantle has never cost a member of the Beltway Village one dime of income or one erg of privilege.  



I'm sure tomorrow "Esquire" will have some post-game analysis.  

UPDATE:  And, as often happens, "tomorrow"  becomes "today...

This Space Reserved for Future Charlie Pierce adjectives.

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My man Chuck Todd stepped in to try to return the dialogue to a less ethereal plane, although, alas, he did so by wading waist deep into the Great Lake of Fail.

The reason the Tea Party arose, the reason we saw a tidal wave in 2010, and I think we're seeing a tidal wave in 2012 is — is that the American people are fed up with politicians in both parties in Washington who keep spending money we don't have. We've got a 16-trillion dollar national debt, larger than our gross domestic product. And the — the great virtue of the Paul Ryan pick is Paul Ryan a serious, substantive man who spent a lifetime in Congress working to roll up his sleeves and tackle these problems, and you want to turn the economy around, get the boot of the federal off the back and the necks of small businesses.

How many times does someone have to point out to these people that Paul Ryan's own budget sends the deficit off to the general vicinity of the Romulan Empire? Or that he voted for two unfunded wars and Medicare Part D? And that the only thing that had less to do with The Deficit than Paul Ryan's entire public career was the results of the 2010 midterms, which were about the Kenyan Muslim Usurper in the White House and about the same lies concerning Medicare that, among other people, Paul Ryan is currently peddling. And honestly, Chuck. "The boot of the federal"? Are you dressing up in camo during your off-duty hours these days?
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Dear Chuck Todd and all the Chuck Toddlers following baby duck-like along behind you: 

Repeat after me.

There is no Tea Party. 

There is no Tea Party. 

There.  Is.  No. Tea. Party.

As I and many Liberals have already told you many, many times before, the Tea Party -- like German soldiers after the fall of Berlin -- is nothing but the GOP Base who have stopped running away from the catastrophe they created just long enough to burn their uniforms and pretend they were all in Switzerland the whole time. 

Meanwhile, Huffpo seems to have settled on a working title for its review of the Sunday Shows:

Sunday Morning Coming Down For Paul Ryan Punditry...

Which is nice.