By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2011
Titanic battles between good and evil are fantasies, and the debt ceiling crisis illustrates what can happen when the fantastic power of ideology prevails.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, debt ceiling crisis, GOP, ideology, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, Rand Paul, Republicans, roundtable, Tea Party, US politics |
By Robert Merkel on January 27, 2011
It’s a long, long, long way to November 6, 2012, but Republicans seeking their party’s nomination are already popping up with campaign ads. And this spot by ex-governor Tim Pawlenty has to be seen to be believed:
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged 2012 Republican primaries, 2012 US election, GOP, primaries, Republican party, Tim Pawlenty |
By Kim on May 27, 2010
The exit of Malcolm Fraser from the Liberal party has set a few tongues wagging: Andrew Bartlett: For the last few months, I’ve found it hard to shake the idea that the Liberal Party’s overriding approach to politics and policy [...]
Posted in Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, andrew bartlett, anti-politics, Charles Richardson, Federal Election 2010, GOP, ideology, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, libertarianism, Malcolm Fraser, Mark Lilla, populism, Republican party, Tony Abbott, USA mid term election 2010 |
By Kim on May 5, 2009
Game changing. Displays the irrelevance of the GOP. Tea bag parties inspired by Fox News and all that crew coincide with a drop in partisan identification to 25% of the electorate. Etc. Certainly, the party swap of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen [...]
Posted in Feminism, Media, Politics, Polls, USA, Women | Tagged American politics, Arlen Specter, barack obama, Clarence Thomas, Democrats, Feminism, GOP, left, Pennsylvania, progressivism, Republicans, tea bag parties, USA, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2009
It’s been suggested – apropos of the title of my last post on the federal government’s stimulus plan – that I was expressing cynicism by calling the piece “Never get between Australians and a pile of money”. Actually, that was [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged ALP, Coalition, deficit, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, GOP, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, tax cuts |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2009
THE Opposition will vote against the Government’s $42 billion financial stimulus package, Malcolm Turnbull says. “Someone has to stand up for fiscal discipline,” Mr Turnbull told the House of Representatives. “Someone has to stand up for levels of debt for [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Coalition, deficit, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, GOP, Kim Beazley, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, tax cuts |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 1, 2009
I’ve made the point before that real incomes in the United States have been more or less stagnant since 1974. It’s interesting to see John Quiggin dissect the reasons for this in the latest of his series of posts on [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, class politics, global financial crisis, GOP, ideology, income inequality, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, middle class, nate silver, neo-liberalism, political economy, Republicans, Rudd government, social democracy, stimulus, The Monthly, trickle down theory, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2008
More on the instant revisionism from the Republican Noise Machine in the wake of Barack Obama and the Democrats’ victory – this time scatterplot and red state blue state rich state poor state make a graphic point about the claims [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Sociology, USA | Tagged 2006 US election, 2008 USA election, American politics, barack obama, Congress, Democrats, GOP, house, noise machine, political science, psephology, Republicans, talking points |
By Kim on November 10, 2008
We’ve heard all this before. Remember when Kevin Rudd won, and we were told his election was a victory for John Howard? Right wing commentators couldn’t have been quicker out of the starting blocks to proclaim “America is still a [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, conservatives, Democratic Party, demographics, electoral analysis, GOP, John McCain, liberals, realignment, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
Blindsided?
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
[Via Gary Sauer-Thompson] Dennis Shanahan in The Australian claims that the Liberal decision to vote against the stimulus package: has blind-sided the Government over the $42 billion stimulus package… left Kevin Rudd politically flat-footed and frustrated…and given the Opposition an [...]
Posted in Economics, Media | Tagged ALP, bernard keane, Coalition, Crikey, deficit, Dennis Shanahan, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, GOP, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited commentators, press gallery, Rudd government, stimulus package, tax cuts, The Australian | 31 Responses