Just finished “How to Overthrow the Government” by that closet populist, Arianna Huffington. Entertaining, witty and funny, it’s a fantastic (if not too shocking) account of how our public servants are neither. If the book has a flaw, its that the title isn’t really fulfilled – activism is dealt with only sketchily at the end. I wouldn’t mind a sequel.
Here’s a sample, dealing with Bob Dole’s cringe-inducing ads for Viagra:
[Dole] even compared his campaign to Betty Ford’s fight for breast cancer awareness. As far as I know, no drug company ever paid Betty Ford. Pfizer’s chairman, by contrast, not only paid Dole but pomposly praised him for making “men’s health issues a priority for 1999” and “advocating for Americans with disabilities.” (So that’s why all those handicapped spots are always taken.)