The Wrecking Crew, by Thomas Frank

From the author of the landmark bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate-and lucrative-conservative misrule.

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[doggysti3s]

No money in humanity or sustainability.

[doggysti3s]

War is money, baby!

[rentatrip1]

@kyeot AMEN & AMEN

[novoneiro]

Incredibly ironic and ignorant for a RepubliCon to be complaining about corporate/political corruption. Kind of makes you look like a stinking hypocrite.

[bapyou]

Let's see. You got that shtick from G. Gordon Liddy? Or Michael Savage? Or Ann Coulter? Which one?

Did you know Ann Coulter grew up in wealthy New Canaan, Connecticut? Her father was a lawyer whose greatest acheivment was decertifying the worker's union at Phelps Dodge. There's your working class girl hero in all her glory. Got it? Ciao.

[SweatLaserXP]

I thought the book was pretty good, had to re-read it. The stuff about Jack Abramoff was jaw-dropping. I thought it was a bit disorganized, overall, but filled with interesting stuff. I think the biggest point of the book is that while both liberals and conservatives are no strangers to lobbyists, conservatives seem to have few qualms about the business, since they see lobbying as "money doing the rational thing", (Norquist) the free market simply exerting itself on government. Why not?