Garrison Keillor, host of the PBS weekly show Prairie Home Companion says "I'm a Democrat because I received a good education in public schools and attended a great state university." Garrison Keillor describes the Democratic values of hard-working people and the idea of the common good, the civil compact, the politics of kindness, the obligation to defend the weak against the powerful. In contrast Keillor says of Republicans whose goal is to repeal the New Deal, they "are determined to cripple the social compact by cutting taxes so as to starve government and kill off public services and reduce us to a low-wage no-services plantation economy…"

In his best Prairie Home Companion style satire he devastates the ultra conservatives who currently control the Republican party under the leadership of "their Etch-a-Sketch president with a voice like a dial tone, who for almost four years has looked as if he were about to say something smart…"

This is a fast, factual, funny read you will find hard to put down.

--Flo Wineriter