Jamie Malanowski

2012 election

GREAT CONVENTION!

Was this best political convention of my lifetime? Almost certainly; not only was the roster of spectacular speakers unbelievably rich, bu whoever assembled the order respected the themes of the speech with a subtle and almost literary elegance. Invoking Ted Kennedy near the beginning of the proceedings Tuesday was a brilliant stroke. Summoning the ancients …

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THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE OF THE CENTURY. . .

. . .so far, anyway, has appeared in The American Conservative. It is called “Revolt of the Rich,”and it is by by Mike Lofgren, who spent 16 years as a Republican staffer on House and Senate Budget Committees. In the article, he makes a case that very few other Republicans are willing to advocate: not …

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. . .AND WHAT I WANT TO HEAR FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THURSDAY

>The Economist is a pretty conservative magazine, but their cover this week hits the mark. “One question, Mr. President,” it reads, “just what would you do with another four years?” with the passage of the stimulus (shoulda gone farther), health care reform (shoulda gone farther), Dodd-Frank (shoulda gone really farther), getting out of Iraq (we …

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CHRIS MATTHEWS CLOBBERS GOP CHAIRMAN

On Morning Joe today, Chris Matthews, a bulldozer on most days, completely demolishes GOP Party chairman Reince Priebus. “That cheap shot about ‘I don’t have a problem with my birth certificate’ was awful,” Matthews said of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s Friday embrace of the birther notion that President Barack Obama was not born in the …

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