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Elias Isquith
If you all would forgive me for a little self-promotion, The New Inquiry has just published an essay by yours truly about the political economy of coal in Kentucky. Continue reading this post…
Well, it’s about time we had ourselves a good old fashioned front-page food fight! Things have been entirely too calm and placid hereabouts — at least on the surface. (We all know comment threads are eternal, churning whirlpools of rancor and discontent.) So let’s do this thing and see what we can make from Mark’s recent post, a post that a Huffington Post editor would likely say SLAMMED yours truly and various other lefty talkalots for overwrought criticism of Mayor Booker.
Skipping over the intro — which I must say is something of a masterpiece of libertarian harrumphing — Mark’s main point seems to be the following. Er, well, that is, it’s the opposite of the following, since it’s written in a style that has me wondering if, by the time he was finished, Mark’s tongue had left a gash in his cheek like Ed Norton’s at the end of Fight Club. Anyway… [Continued at Jubilee]
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker has been on something of a permanent honey moon with the Democratic Left — the apotheosis of which was his foray into firefighting — but that now seems to be over. He had to go and ruin it all on Meet the Press this morning, saying something centrist, like calling the Obama campaign’s anti-Bain Capital ads “nauseating to the American public.”… [Continued at Jubilee]
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Responding to Mitt Romney’s newly unveiled national ad for the general election, Jamelle Bouie writes:
I imagine that the ad will serve its purpose. If you—like most people—haven’t been paying attention to politics over the last year, you would think that President Obama has purposefully kept jobs from the United States, raised taxes on “job creators,” and passed a terrible, ineffective health care bill…
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A bit of yesterday’s news, but I’d like to talk about this article from National Journal‘s Alex Roarty on voter expectation and November’s election.
Roarty highlights a CNN poll that finds a substantial majority of voters expecting to see the Obamas in the White House until 2017. Maybe not especially surprising, if we take into account that most incumbents win reelection (though whether voters know this is doubtful), but what’s striking is just how few think they’ll be seeing Mitt Romney’s mug in their local post office next year… [Continued at Jubilee]
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