Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Cathie Black's "common touch"

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Cathie Black's "common touch"

Cathie Black's "common touch"

by Mike Klonsky

Michael Appleton for The New York Times Cathleen P. Black, the mayor’s pick to lead New York schools, waiting for a taxi outside her Park Avenue apartment.

She grew up sheltered and privileged, in a middle-class Irish enclave of Chicago at midcentury, attending Catholic schools and riding horses at a country club where blacks and Jews were not allowed...She was the newspaper industry’s chief lobbyist in the 1990s, fighting a ban on tobacco advertising, and she occasionally

The puppeteer

by Mike Klonsky

OK, now at least we know where Duncan's "do more with less" crap is coming from.

These are the 11 "Democrats" who voted with the Limbaugh Party

by Mike Klonsky

Following John Boehner's lead, they voted against the extension of unemployment benefits to 4 million workers and their families as we head into the holiday season. Shame on you.

Rep. Robert Berry [D, AR-1]
Rep. Allen Boyd [D, FL-2]
Rep. Bobby Bright [D, AL-2]
Rep. Jim Cooper [D, TN-5]
Rep. Lincoln Davis [D, TN-4]
Rep. Baron Hill [D, IN-9]
Rep. Walter Minnick [D, ID-1]
Rep. Glenn Nye [D, VA-2]
Rep. Collin Peterson [D, MN-7]
Rep. Heath Shuler [D, NC-11]
Rep. Gene Taylor [D, MS-4]