Beating

Author Jim Hightower is not, as the title of his recent book about the George W. Bush administration indicates, a fan of equivocation. “The Bushites are – let me put this politely as I can – NUTS!” he writes, “They're insane. They're zealots totally dedicated to implementing their plutocratic, autocratic, militaristic, and imperialistic vision of America.” The chapters in Hightower's book are prefaced by a series of reasons Bush fans may give for supporting the President followed by blistering and often highly entertaining refutations of those reasons.