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Party Time Joe Klein's article about the Tea Party gave an enlightening insight into this bewildering movement [Feb. 22]. In the next presidential elections, the Tea Party might be a decisive force. I fear that it could deal another blow to President Obama's chances of being re-elected. We can only hope that Sarah Palin kills the credibility of the Tea Party like she did during John McCain's presidential campaign. Remi Boelaert, LEUVEN, BELGIUM...
More Dash Than Cash Last summer, it looked like the sport might cease to exist altogether. Angry at Formula One's decision to impose a team-spending cap, Ferrari, the oldest team on the grid, threatened to lead the biggest marques in a rival series. The teams pulled back at the last minute, but demanded that Max Mosley, the president of the governing Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), stand down after 17 years. Mosley...
...Middle England. Defined by attitude, not geographical location, the country's heartland is inhabited by small-c conservatives and big-E Euroskeptics, people unsettled by rapid social change and radical ideas. Such voters, historically decisive in U.K. polls, tend to view liberals and urban sophisticates with deep suspicion, and might be expected to react to the profoundly liberal, unambiguously sophisticated Clegg with all the enthusiasm of vampires invited to dunk their French fries in aioli...
...this Clegg's fervent allegiance to a liberal movement that hasn't led a government since World War I and you have some idea of how distant the gates of Downing Street might appear. Yet Britain's battered Prime Minister Gordon Brown is rallying support, while his untested Conservative challenger David Cameron has watched a 20-point lead dwindle to as little as two points. With neither of the two main parties on course to win an outright majority, Clegg and his Lib Dems could wake up on May 7 holding the balance of power...
...been affected by the U.K. politicians for 200 years," he adds. This year, it might be the other way around...