The problem with complicated things is that they aren’t easily explained. After public opinion scuttled the dreams of generals and their pals during the Vietnam War, certain interests in this country got together and funded Institutes to examine how to explain certain things to the American people.

That’s how the complex issue of the taxing inheritances over $3.5 million became the far more easily understood notion of “the death tax” and  how the regulation of multi-national corporation’s campaign contributions came to be understood in terms of “attacking the fundamental rights of all Americans to express themselves.”

Peggy Noonan likes to explain things like this, she did it for Ronald Reagan. When he was shifting the national agenda to wards the star wars program and she did it this week in the Wall Street Journal when she explained that Obama had wasted a year of the nation’s precious time dealing with the “tangential” issue of healthcare, when he should be doing more important things like visiting our friends in Australia.

Peggy is of the opinion that thinking about the economy and health care at the same time is too complicated to fit into a single understandable explanation. Anthony Weiner begged to differ. He explained the situation to her on Morning Joe. Please watch (it comes at the end).