Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Just what Perry needed to save his crumbling campaign ...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Just what Perry needed to save his crumbling campaign ...

Just what Perry needed to save his crumbling campaign ...

...Duncan

T-bagger Gov.Perry's "Texas miracle" has been a disaster for public education. He's cut $8B from the public ed budget and fired 50,000 teachers despite a glob of state oil revenues and lots of federal military dollars to spend.

Arne Duncan rode the myth of the "Chicago miracle" all the way to Washington. Now Duncan has jumped into the 2012 campaign with a weak jab at Perry and Texas schooling. Problem is --they're both worse.

But what about the fact, I responded, that on the National