Irresistable Quotes

"The Party is Over" reviews from the Washington Post " Lofgren joins a bipartisan intellectual consensus that Newt Gingrich is largely to blame by destroying the old committee system, concentrating power in the speaker’s office and practicing “scorched-earth tactics” that were carried on by successor Tom DeLay. After Sept. 11, 2001, “things got much worse” as Karl Rove and other party operatives sought to paint Democrats as un-American appeasers opposed to heartland morality. “By the 2010 midterm elections,” Lofgren declares, “the party had collectively lost its mind.”