My concern is what the US, Canada and indeed the world will look like under a Republican president and, it almost follows, a Republican Congress... I do not believe that the Tea Party will actually select the next Republican nominee but the nominee will still owe it allegiance and will go against its wishes only at great peril... With the Tea Party, Big Business, and the Defence Contractors calling the shots, a catastrophe is guaranteed with only the extent of it in question...
Rafe MAIR | 17.09.2011 |
Non-American audiences can be forgiven if they have declined to follow the futile federal budget negotiations in the US over the last two months. The White House has not managed to finesse compromise on any budgetary issue with the Republican Party over this period... The context of the stalemate is about to change, however, and radically, because prolonging the impasse beyond another couple of weeks would trigger a US sovereign debt default, a genuine danger to the US and the world economy...
David KERANS | 13.07.2011 |