Boiling Over

Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal brings us this item in which she worries that the left has struck a blow against American optimism. And she is right to be concerned. In the last several years, and particularly given the stranglehold that the left has over the country now, many are wondering if our best days are behind us. It will take a major long term effort to dislodge the many hard core anti-American types who hold sway over us, but the rise of the Tea Parties is an encouraging sign for the future. Many Americans have not given up, and have correctly identified the culprits on the left who do not want us to be a great country. This administration has people in it who are dedicated to "managing America's decline" as they themselves have put it. But the rest of us see no need to let them get their way.