Though it might just be another gossipy DC-insider book. The title is Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives, and there's not much at the book sites. All the publisher has to say is this:
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain, the definitive book about the Bush Presidency, a revealing and riveting look at the new House of Representatives, elected in the history-making 2010 midterm elections.
I was halfway through Do Not Ask What Good We Do when I felt moved to email Robert Draper. Another title for his book, a history of our current House of Representatives, might be Worst Congress Ever. Draper wrote back. “That's about 50 times pithier than Do Not Ask What Good We Do.”
Draper wrote back. “That's about 50 times pithier than Do Not Ask What Good We Do.”
The Great Surrendering: How Cabal Became Our Politics By Charles P. Pierce Ed Kilgore asks a series of piquant questions at the end of his post about the revelations in Bob Draper's new book about the young brigade of vandals in the House of Representatives. The last of them is the most intriguing: And at what point, exactly, did the Move Right To Win strategy that had always existed on the fringes of conservative political science circles become uniform orthodoxy, to the point that the 2012 GOP nomination contest because strictly a matter of identifying the maximum conservatism the political markets could bear?
Ed Kilgore asks a series of piquant questions at the end of his post about the revelations in Bob Draper's new book about the young brigade of vandals in the House of Representatives. The last of them is the most intriguing:
And at what point, exactly, did the Move Right To Win strategy that had always existed on the fringes of conservative political science circles become uniform orthodoxy, to the point that the 2012 GOP nomination contest because strictly a matter of identifying the maximum conservatism the political markets could bear?
& here's a thing:
Apparently we're going to be hearing this:
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, Comedy Central Mo 4/23: Ben Rattray Tu 4/24: Madeleine Albright We 4/25: Jason Segel Th 4/26: Robert Draper Next week's guests: 4/30: Zach Wahls (author – promoting book “My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family”) 5/1: David Barton (author – promoting book “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson”) 5/2: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK & author – promoting book “The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America”) 5/3: Peter Bergen (author – promoting book “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad”) THE COLBERT REPORT, Comedy Central Mo 4/23: Don McLeroy Tu 4/24: Magnus Carlsen We 4/25: Michael Sandel Th 4/26: Jack White Next week's guests: 4/30/12 Diane Keaton - Author, “Then Again” 5/1/12 TBA 5/2/12 Jonathan Haidt - Author, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” 5/3/12 Lena Dunham - "Girls"
Mo 4/23: Ben Rattray Tu 4/24: Madeleine Albright We 4/25: Jason Segel Th 4/26: Robert Draper
Next week's guests: 4/30: Zach Wahls (author – promoting book “My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family”) 5/1: David Barton (author – promoting book “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson”) 5/2: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK & author – promoting book “The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America”) 5/3: Peter Bergen (author – promoting book “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad”)
THE COLBERT REPORT, Comedy Central
Mo 4/23: Don McLeroy Tu 4/24: Magnus Carlsen We 4/25: Michael Sandel Th 4/26: Jack White
Next week's guests: 4/30/12 Diane Keaton - Author, “Then Again” 5/1/12 TBA 5/2/12 Jonathan Haidt - Author, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” 5/3/12 Lena Dunham - "Girls"