Table of Contents
Preface 7
1 Hope, Change, and All Those Wiggly Jazz Fingers 23
The American Fall: The Occupy Movement 29
2 The Swindle Begins 33
Hope 40
In the Beginning, There Was a Former Community Organizer from Chicago 41
The Wannabe Emperor's Hart Schaffiner Marx Suit Is Uninhabited 49
An Unreasonable Man 60
Don't Look Back 62
Party Like It's 1929 65
It's the Torture, Stupid 73
3 Change You Can Bereave In 79
Face It, Liberals: He's Just Not That Into You 82
2009 The Beginning of the End 89
Fourth: What Obama Did 97
What If They Gave the Presidency and No Protesters Came? 98
George W. Bush, Jr. 110
Keeping a Promise He Should Have Broken 117
Obama Loses His Last Excuse for Inaction 124
Money for Nothing 129
Assassin-in-Chief 135
The Great American Healthcare Swindle 137
Too Deep to Fail 141
The Cavalry Isn't Coming. Stop. Regrets. Stop. 148
5 The Age of Revolt 153
Revolt on die Right: The Tea Party 155
Foreclosure for Fun and Profit 159
Stage Left: Exit the Moderates 168
Occupy before Occupy: The Obama Effect 182
Democracy and Freedom: Good for Other Countries, Not Ours 186
Libya: Another War We Can't Believe In 190
Rise of the Left: Occupy Wall Street 208
Better Late Than Never 214
About the Author 235
About Seven Stories Press 237
