Louis Dubose
The Pimping of the Presidency
Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist Billing Clients for Face Time with George W. Bush
Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history … Read More
Follow the Leader
The Right and its Big Night for Tom DeLay
Follow the Leader The Right and its Big Night for Tom DeLay BY LOU DUBOSE here was something weirdly dissonant about the American Conservative Union’s May 12 salute to Tom DeLay. Maybe it was the video tribute played out on … Read More
Pulp Friction
Pulp Friction BY LOU DUBOSE G.O.P. D.O.A. By Jay Brida Contemporary Press 181 pages, $9.00 (cheap) former New York City police commissioner has a wife, kids, and a million-dollar Tudor in Jersey, where he spends a little too much time … Read More
No Picnic at Speaking Rock
Washington lobbyists shakedown Indian casinos
DORGAN: Also, there is a golfing trip to Scotland by a private jet. And my understanding is that our records disclosed that trip includes passengers Mr. Scanlon, Mr. Abramoff, Representative Ney and Ralph Reed. Would that suggest to you that … Read More
K Street Croupiers
How Two of Tom DeLay's Players Beat the House at the Grand Coushatta Casino
On May 9, 2001, Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff did President George W. Bush a small favor by directing a modest sum of money to Grover Norquist. Norquist was bringing a group of Republican state legislators to the White House to … Read More
Stranger Than Paradise
An excerpt from 'The Hammer: Tom DeLay: God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress
The following article is excerpted from the book The Hammer: Tom DeLay: God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid. Copyright ©2004. Reprinted by arrangement with PublicAffairs. All rights reserved.At first look the … Read More
One Hundred Years of Turpitude
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush In 1994, as George W. Bush was about to defeat Ann Richards and begin a carefully orchestrated ascent to the White House, the Observer published an … Read More
The Righteous Brothers
Tom DeLay goes over the top with the Zionist Organization of America
By the time Tom DeLay arrived at the head table in the Grand Ballroom of the Manhattan Hilton on November 16, his obvious intention to succeed Denny Hastert as Speaker of the House seemed too modest by half. A man … Read More
Get Rewrite
A consitutional scholar rethinks the Constitution
In March I followed a Village Voice theater listing to an off-Broadway production of Robert O’Hara’s An American Maul. The Voice’s one-line description of the play was a tease too tantalizing to pass up. Something like: “A dimwitted American president … Read More