ViewPoint: with Eliot Spitzer
Aired on August 24, 2012 on Current TV
Mike is discussing the 30-year long transformation of the GOP and changes in the Democratic Party that make them both subservient to corporate campaign contributions.
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Mike Lofgren spent twenty-eight years working in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees, which gave him an insider’s look at the Bush tax cuts, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, debates on the Pentagon budget, and the various deficit-reduction commissions. Increasingly frustrated by the gridlock and partisan polarization in Congress, Lofgren left government service as the debt ceiling crisis of 2011 came to a boil. His initial hit article as a private citizen, Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult, received over a million views on Truthout.com. Lofgren has expanded on that article in his new book, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted. Lofgren has a B.A. and M.A. in history and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the Universities of Berne and Basel, Switzerland. |
Aired August 31, 2012 on PBS
Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In Lofgren’s view, Republicans have become overly obsessed with obstructing President Obama, and the Democrats suffer from political complacency. View on PBS
Aired on August 16, 2012 on MSNBC
Michael Lofgren, former senior analyst for House and Senate Budget Committees, talks about the all-time low approval rating for Congress.
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Aired on August 24, 2012 on Current TV
Mike is discussing the 30-year long transformation of the GOP and changes in the Democratic Party that make them both subservient to corporate campaign contributions.
Washington Post: Books By Colin Woodard, Published: September 14, 2012 Link to articleA little over a year ago, a 28-year veteran Republican congressional staffer, Mike Lofgren, decided to leave his job, but he didn’t go quietly. In a widely read parting essay published at Truthout.org, he asserted that the party he’d spent his career in had been taken over by crackpots and lunatics. The piece was sharp, eloquent and all the more damning for being produced not by a progressive activist, but by a longtime aide to Rep. John Kasich of Ohio, a conservative fiscal hawk. Read more
Published August 20, 2012, By Robyn Blumner on Pocono Record Link to article
In 1939, George Orwell wrote, "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
Enter Mike Lofgren, today's intelligent man who is fulfilling that duty. His book, "The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted," is an engrossing autopsy of current political reality — where one party looks like a freak show and the other barely registers a pulse. Read more..
Mike Lofgren's new book, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, will certainly motivate the actual patriots in the United States --- and alienate those Americans who merely call themselves patriots. Read more..
"THE PARTY IS OVER" is powerfully moving and thought-provoking throughout. A book that's essential to read, prior to Voting. Highly Recommended!
