Anybody read John Dean's new book?

[Tess]

I saw John Dean shilling his new book, "Conservatives without a Conscience" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670037745/sr=8-1/qid=1152798837/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6504410-3692165?ie=UTF8) on the John Stewart show (rerun) yesterday afternoon. I think he used the word "proto-fascists" to describe some of the higher-ups in the Bush administration. He laughed when Stewart asked him if that included the President.

He said his book warns about the authoritarianism trend that he sees in the country today, and this is coming from Nixon's former WH counsel.

The American Conservative printed a similar article in the Feb. 2005 issue, "Hunger for Dictatorship." (http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_14/article.html)

Do you think enough people are concerned about this to vote to rebalance in the House and Senate next election?

If things stay as is, with a Republican majority, I am very concerned for the future of the country.

[Hi Top]

Saw that too. Good stuff. It's amazing how rational this guy was. You would have never known he was a Republican! ;) I'm definitely going to pick up that book.

[B-Boy]

Speaking of John Dean, look at what he had to say about all of this, and then what that pipsqueak Lindsey Graham said about Dean. I am sure the "liberal media" will be all over this story...yea, right!

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=97291&section=localnews

[Tess]

Speaking of John Dean, look at what he had to say about all of this, and then what that pipsqueak Lindsey Graham said about Dean. I am sure the "liberal media" will be all over this story...yea, right!

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=97291&section=localnews

That is rich! I love that they inserted fictional comments from other senators! Wonder how they feel about that?

[Shinola]

Do you think enough people are concerned about this to vote to rebalance in the House and Senate next election?

If things stay as is, with a Republican majority, I am very concerned for the future of the country.

Look, I tend to the conservative side, and I am sick to death of the goings on in Washington right now. It's not that I'm just fed up with Republicans, the whole lot just make me want to puke. Further, I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe that Democrats would do a better job. None. Why hope for balance when all you are going to get is balanced shittiness?

I am so desperately disappointed in what the Republicans have done with their power. They have pissed it away on stupid bullshit when they could have actually instituted a few reforms that may have done a little good.

But as I said, the Democrats will just do more of the same, just with different talking points.

I swear, I don't even know how to vote right now. This is the first time I've ever felt this way when I looked at my government. There was a time when I entertained that thought of political aspiration, but I'm just not willing to sell my soul in order become a part of that mess.

edit: One more thing. It's not just the old "politicians are crooked, we're going to hell-in-a-handbasket" complaint. This is different. Now our politicians are not only unethical - they are - but they are mean, with no sense of service, and what's worse, incompetent. This is a whole new level of bad government. And I think the root of the problem is that we have two parties that have been the only shows in town for a century.

[Hank IV]

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.