Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P J O'Rourke
✍ Scribed by P. J. O'Rourke
- Book ID
- 107897222
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781555847173
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"I think our agenda is clear. We are opposed to: government spending, Kennedy kids, seat-belt laws, busing our children anywhere other than Yale, trailer courts near our vacation homes, all tiny Third World countries that don't have banking secrecy laws, aerobics, the UN, taxation without tax loopholes, and jewelry on men. We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives don't find out), a sound dollar, and a strong military with spiffy uniforms. There are thousands of people in America who feel this way, especially after three or four drinks. If all of us would unite and work together, we could give this country. . . well, a real bad hangover." "To say that P. J. O'Rourke is funny is like saying the Rocky Mountains are scenic-accurate but insufficient. At his best he's downright exhilarating . . . Republican Party Reptile is as rambunctiously entertaining as a greased pig catching contest. If you can find a funnier writer than P. J. O'Rourke, buy him a brandy,... ϡ쯦랠