
Fools on the Hill
The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House
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Dana Milbank
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Dana Milbank
From inside the chamber, bestselling author Dana Milbank exposes the petty, inchoate, and dysfunctional state of the Republican House—a confederacy of dunces racing to the bottom, without shame and certainly without the ability to get anything done.
On January 3rd, 2023, a slim Republican majority took control of the House of Representatives, and the dysfunction began immediately, when they needed fifteen ballots to elect Kevin McCarthy as Speaker—the longest since the eve of the Civil War. They would then dump McCarthy and spend a month in the wilderness searching for a replacement, only to threaten the understudy with the same fate. This is more of a circus than a caucus: from Majorie Taylor Greene to George Santos to Jim Jordan, this crowd could find conspiracies everywhere, in space aliens, in the “war” on gas stoves, and in Hunter Biden’s artwork. They would turn Americans against each other, attacking immigrants, members of the LBGTQ community, and even the US military, and they would hijack every bill imaginable with far-right fantasies and crazy ideas. And, yet, they would achieve practically nothing; rather than enact legislation, they would consistently fall into fratricide and petty squabbles, doing everything but the fundamental work required of them: paying bills, keeping the government running, and protecting national security.
Dana Milbank spent a year reporting from the Capitol and what he witnessed was beyond imagination. It would prove to be the most insane and incompetent Congressional session in living memory. Fools On the Hill is the first book to pull back the veil, and expose all the shenanigans, chaos, and tomfoolery that defines the modern GOP. It is simultaneously horrifying and laugh-out-loud funny—yet, sadly, all true.
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Glad someone has tracked all of this
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It’s appalling they are in office. But the way it’s written made me laugh. Mental break from how bad it really is right now.
Well written
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One should vote Democrat for decent government.
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Having been a politics junkie for years, I thought I’d heard it all. Turns out, it is so much worse.
This book is both entertaining, pretty informative and sort of disturbing. Highly recommend, if you like American politics and/or people is suits doing dumb things as a group.
Just when you thought Congress couldn’t get crazier…
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Humor
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To partisan
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If you weren't paying attention
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