Peggy Noonan's latest is uncommonly amusing, incorporating, as it does, her de rigueur assertion that "Mr. Obama deserve[s] to be embarrassed" by John Boehner's untoward speaking invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu — because, you see, Obama "has demonstrated no regard for the Republicans of Congress, and now they are showing no regard for him" — as well as Peggy's honest belief that the invitation "is still a bad move, a damaging snub that makes [domestic political] divisions more dramatic."
On whole, Peggy is clearly seething at the disrespect shown by House Republicans toward her former institutional employer. But she can't just come out and say that — and only that. Any such conscientious and resolute imbalance in contemporary conservative analysis can be a job-killer — which is to say, in this instance, Peggy's job. Hence thoroughly incoherent tribute must be paid to "bad," "damaging," conservative radicalism and its contemptible manners.
This, in both style and substance, is what conservative commentators have been reduced to: ungovernable paranoia. Yet it's no longer a fear and loathing of ghastly liberals hellbent on one-world domination, but a fear of their own correct-thinking enforcers. Be happy in your work, say the pseudoconservative thought police; and watch yourself, because we are.