TUESDAY, OCT 8, 2013 07:43 AM EDT Link to article and comments “I would take Boehner drunk over Cruz sober,” former 28-year GOP staffer-turned-author Mike Lofgren tells Salon BY JOSH EIDELSON TOPICS: SHUTDOWN, POLITICS, TED CRUZ, JOHN BOEHNER, NEWT GINGRICH, MIKE LOFGREN, CONGRESS,REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, BARACK OBAMA, DEBT CEILING, GOVERNMENT, CONFEDERACY, CONSTITUTION,BOOKS, INTERVIEW, ELECTIONS NEWS, BUSINESS NEWS, NEWS, POLITICS NEWS The government shutdown, and the prospect of an unprecedented debt default, have sparked a new…
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How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co. | Interview After a tremendous response to his commentary on Truthout, Mike Lofgren has released a new book, “The Party Is Over.” In it he explores what he calls the “company town” of Washington DC, where “the company’s products are politics and military hardware.” Receive a copy from Truthout with a minimum donation…
Who Is to Blame for Washington Gridlock?
Partisan primaries, cable news, and ‘political terrorism’ create a dysfunctional Congress By SHANNON MCGOVERN Published August 23, 2012 in US News Link to Interview Americans of all political leanings are increasingly frustrated with politics and an apparently dysfunctional Congress. In his book, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, Mike…
Interview on Truthout
Friday, 03 August 2012 00:00 By Leslie Thatcher, Truthout | Interview Link to article “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted” By Mike Lofgren, Viking, 2012, 240 pages Here’s a new book based on an exclusive Truthout commentary that became a national media sensation….
“I Know How to Beat Republicans”: Interview With Former GOP Staffer Mike Lofgren
Leslie Thatcher for Truthout: Mike, tell us a little about your background before you were a GOP staffer and how you came to be disenchanted with the Senate. Mike Lofgren: I grew up in a provincial town, a company town, in Ohio, where there was an incestuous relationship between politicians, journalists and lobbyists: nominally, they were…