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As a huge fan of Molly Ivins, I would like to present
a few audio clips of her reading excerpts from her book Bushwacked. |
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From Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, authors of Shrub, Bushwhacked
is a hilarious, no-holds-barred look at George W. Bush and his
administration, and an essential book for understanding the full,
destructive impact of his presidency.
For years, bestselling political commentator Molly Ivins
has been sounding the alarm about George W. Bush. In Shrub, her
2000 skewering of presidential candidate Bush, the inimitable Ivins, with
co-author Lou Dubose, offered a devastating exposé of Dubya’s career
and abysmal record as governor of Texas. Now, in their second book on our
current White House occupant, Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the
Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies he
used in governing Texas to running the largest superpower in the world.
Bushwhacked brings to light the horrendous legacy
of the Bush tax cut, his increasingly appalling environmental record, his
administration's involvement in the Enron scandal, and the real Bush
foreign policy — botched nation building in Kabul and Baghdad,
alienation of former allies — and, unfortunately, much more. Ivins and
Dubose go beyond the too frequently soft media coverage of Bush to show us
just how damaging his policies have been to ordinary Americans —
"the Doug Jones Average," rather than the Dow Jones Average. Bushwhacked
is filled with sharp observation, humor, and compassion for the people
often ignored by the federal government and the Washington press corps.
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unprecedented challenges to our civil liberties, and with the Bush
economic policy in shambles, it is high time for a close look at the state
of our Union. Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose provide just that in Bushwhacked
— an incisive, entertaining, and damning indictment of the Bush
presidency.
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose on:
Dubya's involvement in the failure of Harken Energy
Corporation:
"There are countless subjects on which George W. Bush might have
pleaded ignorance in 1990, but a failing oil business was not one of
them."
Dubya's accomplishments as governor of Texas:
"As full-time residents of the state that gave you tort reform, H.
Ross Perot, and penis-enlargement options on executive health plans, we're
obliged to warn you that if Dubya Bush really had exported 'the Texas
Miracle,' the country would be in deep shit."
Dubya's environmental record:
"Bush has a chemical-dependency problem, but it's not cocaine. It's
Monsanto, Dow, and Union Carbide. They wrote the checks that put him in
the Texas governor's mansion....Bush had two voluntary emissions-control
programs here in Texas. One involved polluting industries. The other was
directed at adolescent males, who were encouraged to 'try abstinence.'
Only 3 of our 8,645 most obnoxiously polluting refineries actually
volunteered to cut back on their toxic emissions. Numbers on teenage boys
are not yet in."
Why the Republican Party is the party of unregulated
meat and poultry:
"The Republicans win elections in the 'red states' in the center of
the country, where cattle and chickens are produced and slaughtered.
Democrats win their elections in the 'blue states' on the coasts.
Republicans use the USDA to pay off their contributors in the red states.
The result of that crude electoral calculus is laissez-faire food-safety
policy whenever a Republican is in the White House. (If you must eat while
the Republicans control the White House, both houses of Congress, and the
judiciary, you might want to consider becoming a vegetarian about
now.)" |
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