Exalted Order of the Serious: now taking applications

Glenn Greenwald on "Unclaimed Territory" makes a terrific observation about the sheer silliness of Peggy Noonan. In her Wall Street Journal column she claims Democrats are "superficial," are lacking in “seriousness,” and proceeds immediately to attack what Nancy Pelosi wore on the first day – stooping so low as to even quote Dick Morris’s view of Rep. Pelosi’s wardrobe.

“Serious” is now the Washington think-tank neo-conservatives’ favorite word. As Greenwald notes, membership in the Exalted Order of the Serious , headqurtered in DC with little chapters already scattered around the country, includes (1) the war party who want to keep going and probably attack Iran and Syria as well (again, without the slightest clue as to what “victory” would be, suggesting that their only objective is the hope that new enemies will rally the American people again), and (2) those who once favored the war and now either falsely claim that they never did, or throw up their arms without a solution while railing against the incompetence of Bush’s implementation of the neo-conservative fantasy for the Middle East. A third group should be the journalists who -- either as PR-based fake journalists like Noonan or pompous advocates of "bipartisanship" (who until the wind starting blowing in the other direction, managed to stay quiet since way back in the early 90s when Gingrich declared bipartisanship at an end ) -- channel the terminology favored by the Exalted Order of the Serious without the ridicule it deserves.

In order to show their seriousness, instead of tiny motor-scooters, the Exalted Order of the Serious plan to weave down the streets in Humvees -- can't get much more serious than that -- wearing fake helmets instead of beanies or fezzes, in next year's 4th of July parade.