The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted [Paperback edition] 9781101601235, 110160123X

Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, "The Party

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English Pages xxii, 232 pages Year 2013;2012

The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted [Paperback edition]
9781101601235, 110160123X

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Lofgren
Mike

Table of contents :
Preface to the paperback edition --
Introduction --
The party of Lincoln, the party of Jefferson --
Tactics: war minus the shooting --
All wrapped up in the constitution --
A devil's dictionary --
Taxes and the rich --
Worshipping at the altar of Mars --
Media complicity --
Give me that old time religion --
No eggheads wanted --
A low, dishonest decade --
Are the Democrats any better? --
A way out?

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