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How Washington's Right-Wing Wrecking Crew Robbed Us Blind

Posted August 12th, 2008 by Dave Culver

Conservatives have turned a vast government built for our protection into a device for exploiting us.

Thomas Frank, Tomdispatch.com, in AlterNet.org

Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at about the same time presidents stopped wearing beards.

I moved to Washington in 2003, just in time for the comeback, for the hundred-year flood. At first it was only a trickle in the basement, a little stream released accidentally by the president's friends at Enron. Before long, though, the levees were failing all over town, and the city was inundated with a muddy torrent of graft.

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