“Here’s what is disturbing: to think this is one of Washington’s wise men.”

“Here’s what is disturbing: to think this is one of Washington’s wise men.”  Peggy Noonan on Leon Panetta's Worthy Fights.  Another paragraph:

Leon Panetta’s “Worthy Fights” pretends to offer answers to a problem of which the book is actually an example—the mindless (as opposed to thoughtful and constructive) partisanship that has seized Washington. This memoir of his years as a successful political and bureaucratic player is obnoxious and lacks stature. Reading a comparable book, Robert Gates ’s recent, stinging memoir, you could see through the lines a broken heart. In Mr. Panetta’s you see mostly spleen.

I don't think Peggy likes either Panetta or his book :)