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div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/starbursts.jpg” alt=”starbursts” height=”249″ width=”275″ //div On Monday, it was Rich Lowry at the emNational Review/em a href=”http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286653/we-dont-have-our-team-field-rich-lowry”whining/a because the Republicans haven’t fielded their “A-team” for the 2012 presidential contest.

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/starbursts.jpg” alt=”starbursts” height=”249″ width=”275″ //div On Monday, it was Rich Lowry at the emNational Review/em a href=”http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286653/we-dont-have-our-team-field-rich-lowry”whining/a because the Republicans haven’t fielded their “A-team” for the 2012 presidential contest.

As might be expected in the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, there is very little campaign news on the docket for this Monday edition of the Wrap. One poll (and not even a campaign poll), and only a small handful of campaign stories are on tap for this Monday evening… NATIONAL: The Winners and Losers of 2009 In one of what will undoubtedly be a series of year-end reflective pieces that will get launched this week, Gallup went into the field earlier in the month to ask voters who they thought were the “winners” and the “losers” of 2009 .

When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi and Louisiana four years ago, extreme weather and acute human vulnerability met head-on with tragic results. Long-standing gaps in the well-being of different groups of Gulf coast residents were suddenly everywhere in evidence - on rooftops, on I-10 overpasses, and on TV screens across the country. Many were stunned by what they saw. They should not have been. The problems of social exclusion, residential segregation, and human poverty that Katrina brought to light hide in plain sight in every U.S. state.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s task tonight, to rebut President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress, was a thankless one. But it still constituted an opportunity for the Louisiana Republican to show that he could handle the national spotlight, present himself as a fresh face of the Republican Party, and stand up to the current president oratorically. On each of these three hurdles, he came up short.