politicsThe Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

The ultimate Republican insider’s caustic exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today

There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead.

Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill—but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected.

Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.

(Saw this guy on the news today...and he seemed like quite the straight-shooter)

Mike Lofgren spent twenty-eight years working in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees, which gave him ringside seats on TARP, Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, debates on the Pentagon budget and the amazing antics of various deficit–reduction commissions. He holds two degrees in history and received a Fulbright scholarship. He lives in Washington, D.C.

 

 
Posted by Karl Hess, on The Jersey Shore on 08/16/2012 04:49 PM   Comments (11)   Miscellaneous Topic in the ActiveRain Channel   politics  
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I guess we will never see a Ross Perot replacement.
4:58pm • #1
228,204 Points Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Karl -- you mean the parties are not working to represent the citizens, but their own interests?  This might be an interesting read.  Thanks for the mention and overview.
5:11pm • #2
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I tend to agree with his assessment of the situation in Washington.
7:08pm • #3
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I'll have to add this book to what seems like a never ending list of ones I need and want to read.  But just reading the title seems to sum it all up.  Frankly, I'm scared almost to the point of immobilty.
7:47pm • #4
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Karl - The good news is I don't believe for an iota that Romney would be a bad leader.  Foreign Policy, I'd be kind of worried, but domestically ... I think he would grade a B- if elected.  He won't get my vote (as I believe Obama is and will be a better one), yet he's not of the grade that many seem to be in the GOP.  And the other side isn't exactly unicorns and rainbows.  Sounds like a interesting read, if not a totally partisian one. 
7:54pm • #5
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Thank's for the comments...from the article in which this is based: BTW, Lofgren was a lifetime Republican until the debt crises, when he became an Independent.

"...both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP.

Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority."


 
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Karl can't disagree with the end result.  Republicans are no better than Dems and both need to go. 
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Karl - your post came off the Amazon page advertising this book. 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Party-Over-Republicans-Democrats/dp/0670026263

You are quite capable of doing your own analysis! 

However, the book looks interesting and I will check into it!  I, for one, am shocked that the author thinks our representatives do not represent.
3:32am • #8
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Of course it did jay...I provided a link to amazon...I haven't read the book and as I stated, I'd just seen the guy on a news/talk show.
5:47am • #9
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Karl:  When I look at Mr Romney running for President, I look at things in a different way.  Actually, I do the same for Obama.

As President... Romney is simply the guy driving the bus.  Unfortunately he is a Republican... kinda/sorta... so he is driving the REPUBLICAN bus.  If I turn around and look at the folks on the bus sitting behind Romney, it unfortunately looks like "inmates day out" at the nut house. 

It's those crazies who would be "running the country"... pretty much like they are doing now... only now they are doing it as Obstructionists... over-using the "filibuster"... not allowing the Senate to take an up or down vote on just about everything.

If Romney wins the election, these Obstructionists will turn into Republican Party Activists.  Unfortunately, if that happens, I don't think the Democrats have the balls to return the favor and become Obstructionists to Romney.  They just don't have the nerve to  filibuster like the Republicans have.

So... forget Romney, forget Obama.  It's the Republican crazies on the bus that scare me.
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Karen Anne, I agree with you. As a matter of fact I was debating on writing a blog about why I could never vote for a Republican, not that I haven't in the past, because I have. I just cannot see myself voting for ANYONE that belongs to a party of lunatics, which is what the current GOP has become.
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