A Noonan Twofer

The new Peggy Noonan column for The Wall Street Journal is really two essays. The first says plainly that the government's response to Ebola is a series of half-measures designed primarily to make people feel something is being done, when actually no serious measures are being taken.

The second essay is a review of Leon Panetta's new book Worthy Fights which she finds crudely partisan in every way save for its criticism of Obama. Comparing it unfavorably to Robert Gates' book, she is unimpressed. See her conclusion:

Mr. Panetta is savvy, shrewd and quick to see where things are going. I suspect he’s trying to detach his entire party’s fortunes from Mr. Obama. Reading this book and considering its timing, you get the impression that’s the real worthy battle on his mind.

In other words, Panetta says it's okay for Democrats to distance themselves from loser Obama. My mental image is of Leon tossing former boss Barack under the Party's bus.