B.F. Deal

Peggy Noonan and ironman, via Media Matters.

Margaret Noonan:

None of the reporting out of Lausanne has suggested that a helpful agreement would emerge. Tuesday’s deadline for production of a basic framework was missed; on Thursday, a framework, the contents of which were not revealed, was announced. But President Obama is not known as a good negotiator.

That was issued by WSJ just after 8:00 pm on Thursday, about five hours after the extremely detailed

Parameters for Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding Islamic Republic of #Iran’s Nuclear Program: http://t.co/4kRGQCAfSF #IranDeal
— Department of State (@StateDept) April 2, 2015

were released (at 18:56 Lausanne time or just before 3:00 in D.C.). Heh. I guess Noonan's in the company of those for whom the Powers figure no editing is needed. Anybody who goes behind that paywall and finds out whether they've issued a correction, let me know.

Don't you wag your foot at me, sir!

Monty Python foot via ComicVine.

Peggy Noonan on Ronald Reagan, New York Times, October 5, 1989:

I FIRST SAW HIM AS A FOOT, a highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek, perfectly shaped. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe even a little . . . frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from un-smooth roads.

I was yanked from my reverie by the movement of an aide, who bent past the foot and murmured, ''You're in luck, Mr. President. The meeting with the speechwriters is canceled.'' The foot stopped, then wagged more merrily still. Talk and light laughter. Someone closed the door.

From Lawyers, Guns & Money, from Balloon Juice, from Eternity. I've restored the second paragraph which to my mind makes it less porn, but arguably more surreal.

Roman foot, by Fornasetti, Designer of Dreams.

Sixteen scandals

Do not talk to this man unless a State Department lawyer is present. Jason Chaffetz, AP photo.

Thanks to Peggy Noonan, with her expert knowledge of how things work in a conspiratorial White House, I am starting at last to get a fix on what might have happened during the Benghazi incident in the alternate universe where Republicans are right about things.

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President's private office, White House, 11 September 2012, 4:00 PM.

HENCHMAN: Mr. President? Bad news from Libya, I'm afraid.

OBAMA: Curses! Ex Africa semper aliquid novi! What is it this time?