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Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush
It's time to make politics fun again! With uncommon insight, political fearlessness and laugh-out-loud humor, Hightower gives us a hard-hitting, fact-filled, and fun-filled look at the madness of King George the W. If the investigative punch doesn't get you, the Matt Wuerker cartoons and word games in each chapter will.
The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.



