Where are the grown-ups? Peggy Noonan

One of the things i look forward to on Friday is the Peggy Noonan column in the online Wall Street Journal Opinion site. you will find a link to the site over in the news and opinion section of my bloglinks.
today's column is as good as always, delving into the responses to the Virginia Tech horror. check out the whole article at this link. i am not sure how they archive these articles, so i'll just give you a taste of one paragraph.

The anxiety of our politicians that there may be an issue that goes unexploited was almost--almost--comic. They mean to seem sensitive, and yet wind up only stroking their supporters. I believe Rep. Jim Moran was first out of the gate with the charge that what Cho did was President Bush's fault. I believe Sen. Barack Obama was second, equating the literal killing of humans with verbal coarseness. Wednesday there was Sen. Barbara Boxer equating the violence of the shootings with the "global warming challenge" and "today's Supreme Court decision" upholding a ban on partial-birth abortion.

One watches all of this and wonders: Where are the grown-ups?