The Billionaires Bankrolling Tea Parties
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 30th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
The Billionaires Bankrolling Tea Parties
Frank Rich, New York Times
ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier.
The European Union is Dying
Charles Kupchan, Washington Post
The European Union is dying — not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and steady that we may look across the Atlantic one day soon and realize that the project of European integration that we've taken for granted over the past half-century is no more.Europe's decline is partly economic. The financial crisis has taken a painful toll on many E.U. members, and high national debts and the uncertain health of the continent's banks may mean more trouble ahead. But these woes pale in comparison with a more serious malady: From London to Berlin to Warsaw, Europe is…
A Moment for Fiscal Hawks to Seize
Conor Friedersdorf, Forbes
The 2010 midterms approach. Democrats are bracing for losses; Republicans are hopeful, as well they should be. Wary as I am of returning the GOP to power, divided government seems to me the lesser of two evils, if only to stave off more unaffordable spending. I am joined in that sentiment by many independents. And a weak economy is going to be unkind to incumbents in the president's party if history is any guide.What remains to be seen, as summer winds down, the political press returns from vacation and the final stretch of campaigning begins in earnest, is whether fiscal issues loom…