Blog articles tagged with Republican Party (USA)

Brooks Newmark MP questions America's Obama obsession

by Grace-Anne Marius / 08 Nov 2012 09:11

On asking Conservative MP Brooks Newmark about his initial reaction to the election outcome, his response is naturally one of disappointment, “for Romney and his supporters”.

With the debt ceiling rising and unemployment growing, Newmark considers other potential reasons behind the US’s continued support for President Obama, despite Romney’s business acumen and reputation. “I think America has some huge financial challenges out there. Even though [to] 80 per cent of people the economy

A post-Reagan Republican could win in 2016

by Tom Harris MP / 07 Nov 2012 17:04

It could all have been so different. The electoral college tally provides a misleading picture: in terms of the popular vote President Obama only just squeaked this election. In other words, the Republicans could have won. It is that narrow failure that should concentrate the minds of Republican strategists as they consider taking back the Whitehouse in 2016. It might help concentrate their minds on the task ahead if they consider not just the

Romney: a British conservative

by Oliver Wiseman / 13 Jan 2012 12:48

In October and December last year the leader writers at The New York Times penned two scathing editorials about the coalition’s economic policies. One, titled ‘Britain’s Self-Inflicted Misery’, described spending cuts as “a harmful quack cure”. “Austerity”, it argued, “rests on a myth, impervious to facts, that portrays all government spending as wasteful.”

At first glance, it is startling that America’s moderately liberal paper of record took such a line. It