Fanatics and fools : the game plan for winning back America /
Game plan for winning back America
Arianna Huffington.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Miramax Books, c2004.
- xi, 370 p. ; 22 cm.
Introduction -- Page 1 Sect. I: fanatics fanatics' matrix -- Page 21 When Paul O'Neill sounds like Tip O'Neill -- Page 22 Proof? We don't need no stinking proof -- Page 25 field guide to fanatics -- Page 28 George Bush takes the blue pill -- Page 33 Fanatics in action, part one : the foxes guarding the henhouse -- Page 35 America vs. the haters -- Page 36 Portraits in fanaticism : Don Rumsfeld, no holds barred -- Page 40 Doing the Iraq math -- Page 43 Liberation blues -- Page 44 Hawk nearly down : Wolfowitz in Baghdad -- Page 50 Portraits in fanaticism : Richard Perle, Prince of Darkness -- Page 52 Are we feeling safer yet? -- Page 56 Portraits in fanaticism : John Ashcroft, the fanatics' fanatic -- Page 60 Bush's outrages : the dirty laundry list -- Page 67 Bush record : mission accomplished -- Page 70 Crime and very little punishment -- Page 74 secret resignation files : the joy of quitting -- Page 78 Fanatics in action, part two : icing the yellowcake -- Page 89 Corporate America divvies up the post-Saddam spoils -- Page 93 love triangle of Dick, Saddam, and Halliburton -- Page 96 Secrets and the secret keepers : a quiz -- Page 102 Pay to play in Iraq -- Page 110 Uncle Sam wants you...to give back a billion dollars -- Page 115 Portraits in fanaticism : Dick Cheney...the margin of victory for democrats? -- Page 117 reformer with results produces neither -- Page 121 Portraits in fanaticism : the Karl Rove diaries -- Page 125 late, great estate tax -- Page 130 fanatics speak -- Page 131 Healthy marriages are from Venus, George Bush is from Mars -- Page 134 Portraits in fanaticism : Tom DeLay, fund-raiser and fun-raiser -- Page 138 Clean air : more mothering, less smothering -- Page 142 Leave no donor behind -- Page 145 Wayne Berman : portrait of a lobbyist extraordinaire -- Page 148 brief survey of Republican history -- Page 149 Still your father's Republican party -- Page 153 Sect. II: Bush Republican takes California Bush game plan heads west -- Page 161 Governor Schwarzenegger : a very familiar kind of republican -- Page 163 Arnold Schwarzenegger : what he said and what he did -- Page 168 deal-i-nator -- Page 171 leave-us-alone coalition or the Grover-Jeb-Donna-Arnold nexus -- Page 177 very Schwarzenegger Thanksgiving -- Page 179 charm wars -- Page 181 Bread and circuses : then and now -- Page 189 Total lack of recall -- Page 192 Diary of a seven-week-candidate -- Page 199 rubicon -- Page 199 "Arnold on line four" -- Page 203 worst day of my campaign -- Page 204 best day of my campaign -- Page 207 "I'm a woman, please hear me roar" -- Page 209 In 2004, it's really not easy being green -- Page 211 Cruz Bustamante, matchmaker -- Page 215 Sect. III: fools Sheep in sheep's clothing -- Page 219 2002 Train wreck -- Page 224 Our fanatical and foolish society : the symptoms -- Page 227 Invasion of the post-election body snatchers -- Page 229 fools face a stacked deck in California -- Page 232 Stand by your fool -- Page 233 Gray Davis : the Democrats choose decisive inaction -- Page 235 trivial pursuit of the White House 2004 -- Page 236 Democrats tune violins; Rome smolders -- Page 244 phantom candidate -- Page 245 Giving the fools an extreme makeover -- Page 250 Building a critical mass against special interest politics -- Page 259 fear factor : Why NASCAR dads keep voting against their own interests -- Page 263 Sect. IV: other side of the mountain Two nations and the fourth instinct -- Page 269 Of rights and wrongs -- Page 275 Real family values -- Page 277 new responsibility vision -- Page 280 Felix Unger for president! -- Page 286 vision personified -- Page 290 Not all charity is created equal -- Page 293 Compassionate conservatism in the headlines -- Page 297 Portraits of struggle -- Page 302 Sacrifice is for suckers -- Page 316 Americorps and me -- Page 322 Civil society : hanging in the balance -- Page 325 new contract for a better America -- Page 328 Rallying call -- Page 363
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