" Beholden to billionaires, the military-industrial complex and Armageddon-craving fundamentalists, the party of Abraham Lincoln had become a threat to the nation’s future. "
"a disciplined minority of totalitarians "
just todays GOP ?
but isn't that the back room expose behind every signifigant policy formation ?
i love the words choice
"beholden"
"party of " Abe
"...Newt Gingrich is largely to blame by destroying the old committee system,
concentrating power in the speaker’s office and practicing “scorched-earth tactics”
that were carried on by successor Tom DeLay"
i can imagine an anti congressional reconstruction era narrative of similar form
