Nooners surveys the mob scenes, the hangings in effigy, the assaults, the unhinged rhetoric — and blames it all on Obama.

All of this is unnecessarily and unhelpfully divisive and provocative. They [the White House and Democrats] are mocking and menacing concerned citizens. This only makes a hot situation hotter. Is this what the president wants? It couldn’t be. But then in an odd way he sometimes seems not to have fully absorbed the awesome stature of his office. You really, if you’re president, can’t call an individual American stupid, if for no other reason than that you’re too big. You cannot allow your allies to call people protesting a health-care plan “extremists” and “right wing,” or bought, or Nazi-like, either. They’re citizens. They’re concerned. They deserve respect.

Shorter Noonan: if the Democrats would stop dressing like slutty socialists, they wouldn’t get raped.

By the way, I don’t recall Nooners chiding W. when his allies were calling people "traitors" and "terrorist sympathizers" or "communists," or hurling accusations that they hated America and our troops. Guess only certain concerned citizens deserve respect. The Teabaggers.

…the health-care protesters have to make sure they don’t get too hot, or get out of hand. They haven’t so far, they’ve been burly and full of debate, with plenty of booing. This is democracy’s great barbaric yawp. 

This is the first time I’ve seen racism and death threats described as "great."