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Summary: Not surprised by Molly's book
Review: ...Molly writes about Bush with a clearly slanted point of view. Her book proves that Bush is on the right track if someone can make such outlandish [and incorrect] statements that people will pay to read. After reading her book I had to ask myself who is she really talking about...is it true that anyone can write a book and say anything without fact and people will spend their hard earned money to read it. It was like reading the National Enquire. (Which I don't read- but I do see the covers at the supermarket
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Summary: I just don't get it
Review: I don't get it. One lady I talked to said she liked Bush because he was a Christian, but as I looked to see what he has done that was Christian (I am a Christian who believes in Jesus)I just couldn't find a thing that he has done that is something that Jesus would have done. Saying grace, while it is good, is not being a Christian if what you do isn't. This was an extremely depressing, but necessary, book to read. We have indeed been bushwacked. Molly and Lou show us how the policies that Bush and his buddies have pushed through have helped the rich but have hurt the 'Doug Jones' of America. With Harken, Bush did what Enron did, but as he did it first, and has gotten away with it, he was a good teacher for his friends at Enron. Look at how many innocent hard working people were hurt in that fiasco. He took away the cap on the price of energy that Clinton had established when California had its energy crisis so the Californians wouldn't be gouged by unfair prices, and helped the energy companies rip off Californians. When he took office in Texas, it too, had a surplus, but when he left office in Texas, it had one of the biggest deficits ever. As is the case throughout his life, he makes a mess and then someone else has to come along and clean up after him. He worked for the big companies so that they wouldn't have to put money out for air safety for our environment etc. These people, are against abortion, but they don't care about the lives of our future generations, or our current ones either (I would think a life should be as important to them after it is born as it is before) , just to save them a few bucks. They worked hard against any bills that would help the health of the working class people, Clinton worked hard for them and then Bush and his people come along and shoot'em down. There are businesses where workers are docked for using the bathroom, they are only allowed an extra five minutes during the lunch hour. His educational plan is a dismal failure, you would think with a wife who was a teacher, that he would have come up with a better approach. The control over our judicial system is downright scary. They will show us again and again how it is used against the average American citizen. His lack of environmental protection is abominable. I have never seen an administration so gung-ho on destoying its resources as quickly as it can so that a few companies can make a little money. What I don't understand here, is don't these people plan on having children and grand-children, etc. Is this the legacy they want to leave them? Because many of their actions are causing permanent damage to our country that cannot be undone. The damage is not going to be partisan, it is going to affect every single one of us. The bottom line is, every action he has taken has been to increase the wealth of the rich and hurt the working class people. He has shown no compassion for the majority of the people at any time. He may tell the people he is helping them, but what he does is just the opposite. An example: he says he is concerned about the young men and women that are fighting for our country, while he is lowering their wages and the ones that have been injured and are flown back to the U.S. are being charged for the meals they eat in the hospital-they put their lives on the line for our country and we won't even feed them? This has become a country controlled more and more by the corporations and the super rich and if we want to save it, we are going to have to put a lot of the people that are in office out and get some in that care about the people. For a country to be healthy and prosperous, it has to have a more even balance or it will fail. So, go find out how your congressmen have voted on issues, and if they haven't been for the good of the people, get out and vote someone else in. Someone who does care about you, someone who is fair minded and compassionate, and get out and let's get the patriot act repealed!
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Summary: Refreshing insightful book
Review: Pleasure to read. By the way, why has the headcase from the 'Democratic National Congress' reposted his nutty review after it was deleted by the moderators? Clearly a troubled and sad individual.
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Summary: The best President money can buy-
Review: This book explains
- Why Bushes ties to Harken and Enron matter.
- How stacking the nations courts with right-wing judges is harmful to democracy.
- Why and how the Bush Administration's "No Child Left Behind" has left millions of kids behind.
- How Bush's poor foreign policy prior to Sept. 11th has negatively affected our ability to fight terrorism.
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Summary: Getting More Important
Review: I believe that this book went to publication a weeks before President Bush asked the Congress for $87 billion to reconstruct Iraq. I'd love to hear what she has to say about that request. For months, I've been wondering about how Mr. Bush's tax cuts will play out, and Ivins offers an indictment of how similar proposals played out in Texas. Irrespective of where you reside on the political spectrum, you need to listen to Ivins' arguments because they are going to played out in the upcoming elections. No matter whether you love Mr. Bush or believe, like me, that his policies are going to cause our country long term pain, you need to confront the issues that are raised in this book and figure out where you stand.
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Summary: Relentless. Important. What the 4th Estate Missed.
Review: I can only read about 10 minutes of this book per sitting. Too much, too much. And yet we need to know this stuff. Ivins and Dubose lay it out all too clearly. The policies of our Neglector-in Cheif are followed from their scandalous beginings to their inevitable consequences--which range from horrifying to merely sad. Government actons and inactions actually have an impact on the people of the country...whoda' thunk it? Before I read this book I thought maybe G.W. Bush was still only the second worst U.S. President after Warren G. Harding. But the incompetence and corruption of the Harding administration, as glaring as it was, hurt far fewer people than the Bush Cabal is hurting. Chris Matthews and other political comentaters need to start talking about the actual policies and what they actually do to actual people. I mean the horserace is fun, but this is real. This is about people's lives. This is about what kind of country we are going to have for the next century. Whether you agree with the conclusions or not, the facts in this book are all unimpeachable. Everyone should read this book before going into the voting booth. If you make over a million dollars per year and don't particularly care what happens to anyone else, Ivins and Dubose make it pretty clear that Bush is your guy. If you make less than that or do care, you may have been hoodwinked. At least read the book and see what you think. There's no reason to be a lemming.
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Summary: an honest, thorough indictment of Bush et.al.
Review: No doubt conservatives will spew all sorts of venom about this book, largely because they won't be able to marshall any facts in rebuttal. As Franken's book is funny, this one is the sober equivalent of just where Bush's policies are leading us. If you you are among the wealthiest Americans then, for you, its still "morning in America," but if you are among the rest of us then this book book will explain why the lights are going out on the middle class and why the poor have been left to wander in the wilderness. Class warfare? I suppose so. But as this book shows its the middle class and especially the poor who are getting nuked. So much for Bush's Christian compassion.
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Summary: THIS BOOK SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR '04 PREZ VOTERS
Review: Ivins and Dubose have written an excellent book on what we don't hear about in the shallow, corporate-sponsored media we have today. I may never eat meat again. Maybe our representatives on Capitol Hill should read the book -- they might actually get a clue as to what is going on behind their backs. I usually find Ivins funny, and though she has a sense of humor in this book, it is tempered by the facts about how Bush has damaged our country, and is continuing to damage it. As I said in the header to this, this book should be required reading for anyone who plans to vote in the next presidential election (and in my opinion, everyone SHOULD vote if they care about themselves and their loved ones, and their children that they don't have yet).
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Summary: As well written as it is right (correct, that is)
Review: Molly Ivins is the complete package -- erudite yet down to earth, entertaining yet thorough and challenging (I'm still trying to follow the tortured trail of Dubya through the "awl bidness" that Molly laid out so forcefully both here and in "Shrub"), and always, always on the mark. She has hit upon what should have been the obvious question for all of the spate of recent political writers, both right and left -- how are the real folks doin? By tying her attacks on various aspects of the Bush presidency to the impact that the last three years have had on real individuals, she has made her arguments more persuasive and far more compelling. The book is a pleasure to read. And by the way, that begala-carville reviewer is one scary dude.
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Summary: Not that much to laugh about
Review: What I love most about Molly Ivins is her dry-as-the-Texas-prairie sense of humor, so I was sorry to discover that there really isn't much to chuckle over in this book. So, all right, "Bushwhacked" is no "Lies and the Lying Liars," but then Ivins, unlike Al Franken, is a journalist first and a humorist second, and the evidence she and coauthor Lou Dubose present in chapter after chapter of this book as to how the George W. Bush regime is systematically destroying the health, educational opportunities, and financial future of ordinary Americans is no laughing matter. Neocons are said to be up in arms over Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickeled and Dimed" being required reading in somecolleges; they should just be glad it's not "Bushwhacked."
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