Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

Monday, and the week begins with troubles in newspaperville (not a good thing).

Reuters:

The publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News said on Sunday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in an attempt to deal with falling advertising revenue.

The announcement comes a day after Journal Register Co, which publishes 20 daily newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as U.S. newspaper publishers stumble in a rising tide of debt and sinking advertising sales.

Andrew Breitbart: We've ruined the country, spit on the Rule of Law and made a mockery of the Constitution. The way for conservatives to work their way back to relevance? Attack Sodom and Gamorrah Hollywood. You can't make this stuff up.  

Paul Krugman:

Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy’s commanding heights.

WaPo Poll: Deficit Concern Jumps ... Among the GOP

E. J. Dionne:

When President Obama addresses the nation tomorrow, he should not be distracted by Washington's obsessions over partisanship and ideology. He needs, above all, to speak to the country's raw fear.

Robert Kuttner:

Fiscal conservatives are using the temporary deficit increase to attack a perennial target -- Social Security and Medicare.

Roger Cohen:

[Iran] - At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn. Over the entrance is a banner saying: "Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the Jewish community of Esfahan."

WSJ:

"You have the spotlight shined on you and then come along and get mugged." That's how Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, describes his recent ambush by MoveOn.org after his name was floated as a possible secretary of Health and Human Services...

News leaks say Mr. Obama's next HHS choice may be Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, whose health-care views aren't widely known. Perhaps she'll turn out to be sensible. But it's a shame Mr. Obama will miss an opportunity to show the left of his party that it doesn't have a veto over reform-minded Democrats like Phil Bredesen.

Phew. Tennessee Vols think Bredesen wasn't that bad, but attacking "advocacy groups" is no way to conduct a job interview. BTW, there's still no HHS nominee.

Politico:

Themes from the '90s: unite against Dems’ econ policy and counter health care reform.

Run against HillaryCare. Good move, Dr. Kildare. Cue the leeches and the bloodletting – perfect imagery for the GOP.

[Added] Mark Blumenthal:

Of the many stories in Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's new book, Dispatches from the War Room, the most newsworthy may be his slashing condemnation of Mark Penn, the pollster that displaced him within the inner circles of both President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.