Heads Up: Kevin Phillips coming up on Lou Dobbs

[kerry-is-my-prez]

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[ChiciB1]

1. Just Came In To Post This

This is one heck of a GUY! Wrote a fantastic book called American Dynasty about the Bushies!

Don't Miss! Gotta run!

[RamboLiberal]

6. And don't forget this was this guy is a former Republican

Actually very instrumental in predicting and devising the Southern strategy.

[blondeatlast]

17. He's written several books. He's a Goldwater conservative disgusted with

the R's ever since Rannie Raygun.

I highly recommend reading a thoughtful conservative's point of view:

http://www.powells.com/s?kw=kevin+phillips

[napi21]

2. He thinks there are 40% that feel that way! n/t

[0007]

13. Probably over 50% feel that way! n/t

[grytpype]

16. Feel what way?

[RamboLiberal]

3. Cool - I ordered the unabridged audio CDs of the book today

I've taken to taping Dobbs every night since the Dubai ports issue. I may not always agree with Dobbs, but I think he has the most complete broadcast consistently of news stories, and fair panels of guests.

I'm getting my news these days on TV from KO, Dobbs, Colbert and Daily Show.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

7. He's been very good lately. Used to hate that show....

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[Coexist]

4. Haha! They just showed the "end times" question

and Bush's nervous response!!!!!

Woot!

[Coexist]

5. "he can't answer that question, he's damned if he does

and damned if he doesn't"

[blm]

12. Well that's the bed he made he made when he sold himself to the fundies

as if he were one of them. Screw him.

[Coexist]

20. agreed.

[LSparkle]

8. I've got to get his book

He's a prescient man ...

[Coexist]

9. "an erosion of making things to trading things"

what led to the downfall of the last economic powers.

Gee - what country does that remind you of?

[napi21]

10. Shrub's legacy! n/t

[rainy]

11. is it over, did I miss it?

[napi21]

14. Yes, but it does rerun late tonight. Check your local listing. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

18. Reruns at 4AM EST - so set your Tivo or Tape player

Phillips book comes out tomorrow - so hopefully he'll be all over the airwaves for several days.

[RamboLiberal]

19. The book - American Theocracy

Kirkus Reviews
A dazzling treatise on the collapse of Republican virtues under the fundamentalists and plutocrats united in the perfect storm of Bushism. Phillips (American Dynasty, 2004, etc.), the apostate former Republican strategist, once coined the term "Sun Belt" and envisioned the Southernization of American politics. He is now in the unhappy position of bearing witness to the birth of a Texas-fried, small-tent politics that blends religious orthodoxy and unwavering uncertainty in presidential infallibility with an economics predicated on indebtedness and extraction. The red state/blue state schism marks several old divides, he holds, one between "a preference for conspicuous consumption over energy efficiency and conservation," one between secularism and theocracy. Why would a good American encourage the latter? Well, a certain school holds that the Second Coming will not be triggered until theocratic rule is established in this most divinely favored of countries, after which, presumably, it will be up to the damned to sort through the ugly business of paying the debts and filling the tanks. Many of these divides are very old, Phillips observes, between "greater New England and the South"-save the polar reversal of the South now being Republican, the Northeast Democratic. As to the manifold manifestations of theocracy, few are subtle: Consider the Schiavo case, and unprecedented federal meddling in science education (with the executive's expressing a clear preference for so-called "intelligent design"), and the endless effort to undo various civil liberties. And the financialization of America? Again, writes Phillips, it's not subtle: "Never before have political leaders urged . . . large-scaleindebtedness on American consumers to rally the economy," to say nothing of an economy based on servicing debt rather than making anything useful-and, of course, on ever-scarcer oil. Other credit-happy theocracies, like Inquisition Spain, went bankrupt, collapsed under their own weight, disappeared from influence and view. Phillips's historical essay/polemic is provocative, though plenty of folks in Houston-to say nothing of Washington-won't like it at all.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=067003486X&itm=1

[Digit]

15. * is "governing" like there is NO TOMORROW....

My word to Rapturists: It doesn't count, if you bring it about.

[radio4progressives]

21. Totally blown away, that he had Kevin Phillips on !

It was freaking awesome..

[AlCzervik]

22. he used to be on "Now" with Bill Moyers at least once a month

but you probably know that already and i really liked "American Dynasty" by him.