Michael Barone: Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America Democrats are doing worse in the polls than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain the Labor party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday. […] […] Barack Obama and Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, head governments that are running budget deficits of 10

Michael Barone: Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America Democrats are doing worse in the polls than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain the Labor party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday. […] […] Barack Obama and Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, head governments that are running budget deficits of 10

After promising austerity measures, Greece got its bailout. Evidently, though, some who’ve been nurtured at the teat of the European nannystate continue to believe that if you can’t have it all, none of it is worth having. Ed Morrissey: Communists in Greece staged massive May Day rallies this weekend, opposing the deal and the austerity measures. Molotov cocktails got tossed at police at some of the demonstrations. The Greeks are

…even when Barbara Boxer or Chris Dodd insist otherwise. Exit question: is, like, the Senate too big to fail, I wonder…? **** related: “How to avoid a bailout bill”