It gives me great pleasure to reintroduce to you “DemFromCT,” who long ago gave me permission to use his writings. His mind is so far above mine that, while I don’t always understand what he writes entirely (or sometimes much at all in the details), I am fully honored that he allows me to use his material, and I think he’s “the greatest thing since sliced bread”.

Monday morning, and, well, the Jets couldn’t get it done. But Peyton Manning did. And the Jets are building for the future (strong running game, fundamentals.) Democrats, take heed.

NY Times editorial:

In calling for new limits on the size and activities of big banks, President Obama has given the effort to enact serious financial regulatory reform something it lacked: a rational starting point.

Better late than never.

Paul Krugman:

Given that, why not reject Mr. Bernanke? There are other people with the intellectual heft and policy savvy to take on his role: among the possible choices would be my Princeton colleague Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman, and Janet Yellen, the president of the San Francisco Fed.

But — and here comes my defense of a Bernanke reappointment — any good alternative for the position would face a bruising fight in the Senate. And choosing a bad alternative would have truly dire consequences for the economy.

Paul is always good, but when he recognizes that practical politics exist, he’s even better. A bright light in these dark times.

Ross Douthat: Clinton… yadda yadda… welfare state… Obama… too audacious…  sleepwalk…

Howard Kurtz:

“The national press, and frankly to some extent the local press, were taken by surprise,” says Mark Jurkowitz, the Boston Globe’s former media reporter. “The failure here was not to pick up on what was going on out there in the ether. A lot of journalists didn’t know who Scott Brown was or failed to take him seriously because he was a Republican running in an overwhelmingly Democratic state,” says Jurkowitz, now associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

We were disappointed but not surprised. But the fact is that Coakley (a good person) had to run a bad campaign and have a poor debate performance to get where she was. It didn’t just happen, and therefore could not have been picked up too early.

The Economist: Stop the state!! Ignore the corporations!!

USA Today:

A gossipy, behind-the-scenes presidential campaign book once again illustrates how the public is poorly served by some in the political press corps.

Game Change, by John Heilemann, a writer for New York magazine, and Mark Halperin, a reporter for Time, raises the question for non-political junkies of why so much about candidates remains hidden from public view until after the vote.

So, if you knew this stuff, why didn’t you print it before the friggin’ election, boys???

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