Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards

Name: Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781441885579

Author: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/21/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Synopsis

Put the country's big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks which are the Senate and the House.Having had a lot of fun with what politicians do, P.J. O'Rourke now has a lot of fun with what we should think about those politicians. Nothing good, to be sure. Best-selling humorist P.J. O’Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, Don't Vote—It Just Encourages The Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O’Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addlepated hippie youth to his current state of right-wing grouch maturity. Don't Vote—It Just Encourages The Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious and sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil--but only just barely necessary. Read P.J. O'Rourke on the pathetic nature of politics and laugh through your tears or—what the hell—just laugh.

About P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O’Rourke is the author of twelve books, including Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, both of which were #1 New York Times best sellers. His most recent book is the best seller On the Wealth of Nations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emma

Reading political things is either just making yourself feel good about what you already believe or an exercise in increasing blood pressure. So I've decided. "...terrorism is not... just a product of left-wing politics and its offshoot fascism." (p 181) "Gun ownership is crucial to the preservation o......more

Goodreads review by Jim

There is no political essayist that makes me laugh more than P.J. O'Rourke. In the most recent collection of pieces culled from columns and speeches, O'Rourke beats the conservative drum over the head of liberals in general, Obama in particular and Republicans for screwing up the opportunities leadi......more

Goodreads review by Barry

Brilliant. And, as with everything by Mr. O'Rourke, such fun to read. Every page offers something to quote or, better yet, to steal. For example: [Concerning the federal bailout] "The message that the U.S. government sent to the broke banks and beggared financial institutions was this: 'Don't you eve......more

Goodreads review by Douglas

He has moments here of glorious lucidity, and I enjoyed the whole thing enough to read all the way through. But O'Rourke is missing a step or two these days.......more

Goodreads review by Richard

As has been noted in other places, this rant of P.J. O'Rourke's is not as entertaining as Parliament of Whores, but I think it is indicative of a change in his reporting position: When he wrote Parliament of Whores, he was still working in Washington and had regular contact with politicians and poli......more