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91 Gingrich’s second divorce: New York Post, July 18, 2000; Ann Gerhart, “The Gingrich Divorce and Its Repercussions on the Right,” Washington Post, December 18, 1999, http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200703090003.
91 a trilogy of “alternative” historical novels: Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen, Never Call Retreat (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005).
91 “before we actually lose a city”: Riley Yates, “Gingrich Raises Alarm at Event Honoring Those Who Stand Up for Freedom of Speech,” New Hampshire Union Leader, November 26, 2006, http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gingrich+raises+alarm+at+event+honoring+those+who+stand +up+for+freedom+of+speech&articleId=d3f4ee4e-1e90-475a-b1b0-bbcd 5baedd78.
91 “drive God out of America’s public life”: Newt Gingrich, Rediscovering God in America (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2006), Foreword.
92 “He is yesterday’s man”: Jeffrey Kuhner, Insight. Insight’s archives were scrubbed during Washington Times site redesign; an excerpt is available at http://blogs.whereistand.com/adamelijah/724.
92 Gingrich on “Focus”: Gingrich interviewed by Dobson, Focus on the Family radio, March 9, 2007, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also see Bill Schneider, “Gingrich Confession: Clearing the Way for a 2008 Run?” CNN, March 9, 2007, http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/09/gingrich.schneider/index.html.
93 “richly satisfied by what he heard”: Jerry Falwell, “Why I Invited Gingrich to Give a Speech at Liberty,” WorldNetDaily, March 10, 2007, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=40560.
94 Falwell’s funeral: Max Blumenthal, “Diary of a Christian Terrorist,” Huffington Post, March 23, 2007, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/diary-of-a-christian-terr_b_49167.html.
94 Liberty University commencement: James Klattel, “Gingrich: Confront ‘Radical Secularism,’” Associated Press, May 19, 2007, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/19/politics/main2828219.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_2828219.
94 Gingrich at Value Voters: Max Blumenthal, Theocracy Now! Value Voters Summit, Washington, DC, YouTube, October 21, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvhn43BmdWM.
95 He called it “cheap grace”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Touchstone, 1959), p. 43.
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97 “on December 20, 1998, Livingston resigned”: Howard Kurtz, “Larry Flynt, Investigative Pornographer,” Washington Post, December 19, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/flynt121998.htm.
97 “We are all pawns on the chessboard”: Bob Livingston, “Excerpts from Livingston’s Resignation Speech,” New York Times, December 20, 1998, http://query.ny times.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E2D7173CF933A15751C1A96E958260.
97 DeLay turned Congress into his fiefdom: John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006), pp. 127-128.
98 “But while Gingrich was autocratic”: Ibid.
98 DeLay’s profile: Peter Perl, “Absolute Truth,” Washington Post Magazine, May 13, 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112800700_pf.html.
98 “there was only one topic: deregulation”: Lou Dubose interviewed by NPR, “Texas Journalist Lou Dubose on Tom DeLay,” Fresh Air, September 29, 2004, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4052979.
99 “Where’s Dad?”: Ibid., p. 55.
99 “I’ve been walking with Christ”: Tom DeLay, Gary Schneeberger interview, “The Lord Has Had a Major Part in Developing Who Tom DeLay Is,” CitizenLink, March 23, 2007, http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004195.cfm.
99 “intensity in their dependence upon religion”: Robert Minor, When Religion Is an Addiction (St. Louis, MO: HumanityWorks!, 2007), p. 46.
100 “DeLay’s faith has solidified his political base”: Peter Perl, “Absolute Truth,” Washington Post Magazine, May 13, 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112800700_pf.html.
100 “unconscious suffering of the average automatized person”: Fromm, Escape from Freedom, p. 255.
100 Norquist’s analogies: Grover Norquist profile, Media Transparency, undated, http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=52.
100 K Street Project: Nicholas Confessore, “Welcome to the Machine,” Washington Monthly, July/August 2003, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html.
101 “As Republicans control more and more”: Ibid.
101 DeLay and the 2002 Texas elections: R. Jeffrey Smith, “DeLay’s Corporate Fundraising Investigated,” Washington Post, July 12, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43219-2004Jul11?language=printer.
101 holing up in a motel in Oklahoma: Andrew Nelson, “Democrats Stage a Lone Star Revolt,” Salon, May 15, 2003, http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/05/15/texas/print.html.
101 force them back to Texas: “Lieberman: Federal Authority Misused by Texas Republicans,” Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, August 22, 2003, http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&Affiliation=C&PressRelease_id=e96bcc0b-8a5d-43d3-8fbe-1a2dc58c885f&Month=8&Year=2003.
101 DeLay’s elaborate schemes had finally attracted scrutiny: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “House Ethics Panel Admonishes Rep. DeLay for Second Time in a Week,” New York Times, October 7, 2004, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res =9C01E0DA173BF934A35753C1A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.
102 Joel Hefley was unceremoniously removed: Carl Hulse, “New Chairman for House Ethics Panel,” New York Times, February 3, 2005, http://www.nytimes .com/2005/02/03/politics/03ethics.html?_r=1.
102 Investigative bombs: Jack Newfield, “DeLay on the Hot Seat,” The Nation, September 23, 2004, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041011/newfield.
102 Abramoff and the Family: Jamie Dean, “Focus on the Finances,” World, February 4, 2006, http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11489.
102 Dobson’s ire: Max Blumenthal, “Abramoff Splits the Christian Right,” Huffington Post, March 7, 2006, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/abramoff-splits-the-chris_b_16933.html.
CHAPTER 12: CASINO JACK, THE FACE PAINTER, AND THE SAUSAGE KING
103 He was murdered execution style: Curt Anderson, “Three Charged in Ganglandstyle Murder of Suncruz Founder ‘Gus’ Boulis,” Associated Press, September 27, 2005, http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-927boulismurder,0,6594337.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines.
103 Kidan and the other Family: Timothy Appleby, “Boulis Investigation Dredges Up Big Names,” Globe and Mail, October 10, 2005, http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/101006.htm.
104 where he conferred more than eighty times: Philip Shenon, “Abramoff and Rove Had 82 Contacts, Report Says,” New York Times, September 29, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29abramoff.html?hp&ex=1159.
104 sought to keep Abramoff’s visits secret: “Judge OKs Scrutiny of Abramoff Visits to White House,” Associated Press, October 2, 2008, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-10-02-abramoff-white-house_N.htm.
104 Their good times rolled: Committee for Government Reform staff report, prepared for Tony Davis and Henry Waxman, September 29, 2006, oversight.house.gov/abramoff/docs/abramoff.pdf.
04 laundered through DeLay’s U.S. Family Network: R. Jeffrey Smith, “The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail,” Washington Post, December 31, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480.html.
104 an inveterate bully: The God Blog, “Jack Abramoff the Bully,” Jewish Journal, October 4, 2007, http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/jack_abramoff_the_bully/.
104 the same sort of sadistic tendencies: Christopher Brauchli, “Tom DeLay and His Friends of Distinction,” Boulder Daily Camera, November 28, 2004, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1128-27.htm.
105 Abramoff-Scanlon e-mails: Michael Crowley, “A Lobbyist in Full,” New York Times Magazine, May 01, 2005, http://query.nytimes.com/gst
/fullpage.html?res=9B01E3DE1231F932A35756C0A9639C8B63.
105 manipulating “the wackos”: Michael Scherer, “Abramoff-Scanlon School of Sleaze,” Salon, November 3, 2005, http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff/index.html.
105 Reed and the Christian right: Max Blumenthal, “Abramoff’s Evangelical Soldiers,” The Nation, February 2, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060220/blumenthal/single?rel=nofollow.
105 “Ninny of the 20th Century”: Doug Monroe, “The Baby Jesus vs. Gandhi,” Creative Loafing Atlanta, June 15, 2005, http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A19515.
106 Yellow Pages salvation: Ryan Werder, “Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Ralph Reed,” August 8, 2006, http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:D_Wg26CDKdoJ:www.campusprogress.org/tools/1058/know-your-right-wing-speakers-ralph-reed+%22simply+demanded+that+I+come+to+Jesus%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari .
106 Reed’s entry into politics: Nina Easton, Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy (New York: Touchstone, 2000), pp. 205-208.
106 “schizoid tendencies”: Sidney Blumenthal, Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), pp. 101-102.
107 Abramoff wrote to Rabbi Daniel Lapin: Mary Curtius, “A Lobbyist’s E-Mail Train of Billing, Status, Charity,” Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2005, http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/25/nation/na-jack25
107 “I do guerrilla warfare”: James Carney, “The Rise and Fall of Ralph Reed,” Time, July 23, 2006, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1218060,00.html.
107 “The Right Hand of God”: “The Right Hand of God: Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition,” Time, May 15, 1995.
107 His own consulting firm, Century Strategies: Joshua Green, “Second Coming,” The Atlantic, April 2004, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200404/green.
107 “humping in corporate accounts”: Max Blumenthal, “Abramoff’s Evangelical Soldiers,” The Nation, February 2, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060220/blumenthal.
107 “a cancer on the American body politic”: Jack Newfield, “Once a Foe, Now a Casino Lobbyist,” New York Sun, September 8, 2004, http://www.nysun.com/national/once-a-foe-now-a-casino-lobbyist/1396/.
110 “good to see Gary Bauer”: Bruce Reed, “A Ralph by Any Other Name,” Slate, May 25, 2007, http://www.slate.com/id/2166674/.
111 Olasky exposed Reed and Abramoff: Blumenthal, “Abramoff Splits the Christian Right.”
111 Minnery defended Focus: Max Blumenthal, “Focus on the Family’s Minnery Contradicted Himself Regarding Group’s Involvement with Abramoff Associate Reed in Casino Scheme,” Media Matters, March 2, 2006, http://mediamatters.org/items/200603020007.
111 “added fuel to the fire”: James Dobson, “Dr. Dobson’s Response to the DefCon Attack,” CitizenLink.org, April 5, 2006, http://www.citizenlink.org/focusaction/fofafeatures/A000006832.cfm.
111 ordered its members to cancel their subscriptions: “Set Straight,” Mailbag, World magazine, May 27, 2006.
111 Defcon ads: http://www.afa.net/pdfs/defcon_religiousright.pdf.
112 firing off a mass e-mail: Leftwing group uses lies to slander Dr. James Dobson, http://www.soulforce.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-322.html. Also see “Show your support to Dr. Dobson by signing this letter of appreciation: Text of letter to Dr. Dobson,” https://secure.afa.net/afa/afapetition/signpetition.asp?id=1530.
112 “the symbiotic [sadomasochistic] drives”: Fromm, Escape from Freedom, p. 174.
CHAPTER 13: TALK TO HER
114 Schindlers and Randall Terry: Barbara Miner, “Randall Terry Resurfaces,” In These Times, November 24, 2003, http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/369/randall_terry_resurfaces/.
114 “modern-day crucifixion”: Phil Long, “Parents Appeal Ruling Refusing to Reinsert Schiavo’s Feeding Tube,” Knight Ridder, March 22, 2005, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/190/story/11313.html.
114 “more than just Terri Schiavo”: Karen Tumulty, “Tom DeLay: ‘It Is More Than Just Terri Schiavo,’” Time, March 23, 2005, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1040968,00.html.
115 Soros and the “do-gooder organizations”: Ibid.
115 “the pro-life base will be excited”: Mike Allen, “Counsel to GOP Senator Wrote Memo on Schiavo,” Washington Post, April 7, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32554-2005Apr6.html.
115 President Bush rushed back: “House Passes Schiavo Bill,” CNN.com, March 21, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/20/schiavo/index.html.
115 nullified by Judge Greer’s final ruling: Abby Goodnough and Maria Newman, “Schiavo’s Feeding Tube Removed at Judge’s Order,” New York Times, March 18, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/national/18cnd-schiavo.html?pagewanted=all&position=.
115 Charlie Ray DeLay’s death: Walter F. Roche Jr., and Sam Howe Verhovek, “DeLay’s Own Tragic Crossroads,” Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2005, http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/27/nation/na-delay27.
116 Delay’s frivolous lawsuit: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Years Ago, DeLay’s Father Was Taken Off Life Support,” New York Times, March 28, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/politics/28delay.html.
116 Congress’s public approval rating: Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, “Poll: Keep Feeding Tube Out,” CBS News, March 23, 2005, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/23/opinion/polls/main682674.shtml.
116 a March 23 CBS News poll: Joel Roberts, “Political Fallout over Schiavo,” CBSNews.com, March 23, 2005, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/23/politics/main682619.shtml.
117 “pure, blatant pandering to James Dobson”: Dick Armey, Ryan Sager interview, “Dick Armey on the Direction of the GOP,” Sager’s blog, September 15, 2006, http://www.ryansager.com/blog/index.php/2006/09/15/qa-with-dick-armey/.
117 the Constitution Restoration Act: James Pfander, “Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction-Stripping Legislation,” Northwestern University Law Review, 101, 1 (2007): 191-238, http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/pfander.pdf.
117 “The judges need to be intimidated”: Bob Herbert, “In America, a Plan to Intimidate Judges,” New York Times, December 4, 2000, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E2DD173CF937A35751C1A9669C8B63& sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.
118 the “Judicial War on Faith” conference: Max Blumenthal, “In Contempt of Courts,” The Nation, April 11, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050425/blumenthal.
118 In Defense of Mixing Church and State: Rick Scarborough, In Defense of Mixing Church and State (Lufkin, TX: Vision America, 1999).
118 How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary: Edwin Viera: How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary (San Antonio, TX: Vision Forum Ministries/The Conservative Caucus, 2004).
118 “Death solves all problems”: Stalin quoted by Robert Conquest, Stalin Breaker of Nations (New York: Viking, 1991).
119 abortion doctors should be executed: Ron Jenkins, “Coburn Different Kind of Political Cat,” Associated Press, July 10, 2004. Coburn posted Jenkins’s article featuring his remarkable quote on his own 2004 campaign website. The website and article can still be viewed at http://www.coburnforsenate.com/press21.shtml.
119 “I want to impale them!”: Blumenthal, “In Contempt of Courts.”
119 “some form of strangulation”: Ibid.
120 “malignant aggression”: Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (New York: Henry Holt, 1973), pp. 366-369.
121 Fromm and Maccoby study: Ibid., p. 380.
121 “They are the haters”: Ibid., p. 409
122 Dannemeyer’s list: The Clinton Body Count, Snopes.com, http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp.
122 “This isn’t Colombia”: William Levesque, “Quiet Judge Persists in Schiavo Maelstrom,” St. Petersburg Times, March 6, 2005, http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/06/Tampabay/Quiet_judge_persists_.shtml.
122 Houston Chronicle poll: Associated Press, “‘Houston Chronicle’ poll: Support for DeLay Fa
lling in His District,” April 4, 2005, http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000865613.
122 “salute” to DeLay: Mark Leibovich, “A Heaping Helping of Devotion,” Washington Post, May 13, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051300045.html.
123 DeLay set the tone: Juliet Eilperin and Mark Leibovich, “In Texas, The Hammer Runs into an Anvil,” Washington Post, October 6, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101471.html.
123 Dobson’s statement: “Dobson Speaks Up for DeLay; Focus Action Chairman Praises Majority Leader’s ‘Reason and Clarity,’” U.S. Newswire, September 28, 2005, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-13205353.html.
123 “I hope the Rapture comes tomorrow”: Max Blumenthal, Rapture Ready, Christians United for Israel Tour, Washington, DC, July 16, 2007, posted on YouTube July 26, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig.
123 “Enabling thereby helps the addict remain in denial”: Robert Minor, When Religion Is an Addiction, p. 40
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125 his personal qualities as critical assets: “The most influential US conservatives: 81-100,” London Daily Telegraph, April 24, 2008, 125 To Jenkins, Perkins was like a son: Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers,” The Nation, April 26, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050509/blumenthal.
126 “Ronald Reagan, both George Bushes”: Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush (New York: Scribner, 2007), p. 171.
126 Davis’s name exploded into national headlines: Mark Gribben, “Murder at Mockingbird Lane,” Tru TV Crime Library, http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/index.html.
126 Born to a rape victim: Robison biography, http://www.jamesrobison.org/. Also see Robison, Scott Ross interview, “James and Betty Robison: Life Today . . . and Yesterday,” Christian Broadcasting Network, August 2, 2004, http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/interviews/JamesBetty_Robison_080204.aspx.