On behalf of what she calls the Republican Party, Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan bids adieu to the past decade and to the Bush Doctrine, to what she calls “un-Republican” conduct, aka “bullying dreaminess.” But who defines what is “Republican conduct?” Calvin Coolidge? Dwight Eisenhower? Robert Taft? Or Theodore Roosevelt, the “bullying dreamer” himself?

But at the same time Taft Republicans are tossing the Bush Doctrine into the dustbin of history, President Obama has been picking it up, dusting it off, and foisting it upon his bewildered party, which can barely believe what’s gone on.