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PDF Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans,



            Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists,


            and Dunces Who Burned Down the



            House by Dana Milbank






            From the halls of Congress, New York Times bestselling author Dana Milbank exposes the chaotic,
            incompetent and dysfunctional state of the current Republican House—a confederacy of dunces, united by
            paranoia and conspiracy theories, blundering from one self-inflicted crisis to the next.   When Republicans
            took control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections with a historically slim majority, mayhem began
            immediately. “Failed completely.” “Can’t govern.” “Broken.” “Lunatics.” “Embarrassing.” “Bunch of
            idiots.” And that’s how House Republicans described themselves. Take it from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who
            said in May 2024 that “many Americans in general are sick and tired and fed up with a feckless, useless
            Republican Party, a conference that does nothing.” This is the House of George Santos and Jim Jordan, of
            Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz. They investigated space aliens and Hunter Biden’s art dealer. They punched
            and they groped. They championed Confederates and insurrectionists—while disparaging the military and
            sabotaging the economy. They tied up the House so often with far-right fantasies that they produced what
            was arguably the least effective session of Congress in history.   Dana Milbank, widely-read Washington
            Post columnist, spent a year reporting from inside the Capitol, watching the circus from the front row.  The
            result, Fools on the Hill, is simultaneously horrifying and laugh-out-loud funny. Sadly, it is all true.
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