Friday, August 21, 2009

Author Thomas Frank Exposes The GOP's Profit Motive

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By Chad Dougatz

Author Thomas Frank goes on record as saying the main motive behind any of the GOP’s tactics is profit, pure and simple. Speaking with "The Lionel Show" on Wednesday, the award-winning writer goes on to say that the sole GOP desire is a market-based government.


Thomas Frank is the author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation. He is also the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and One Market Under God. The founding editor of The Baffler and a contributing editor at Harper’s, he is also The Wall Street Journal’s newest weekly columnist.

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