Bamboo Review: C Street
With Election Day drawing near, it's probably a good time for a solid reminder of exactly how scary the agenda being pushed by the Republican party is. And I have just the book for that, Jeff Sharlet's follow-up to his bestseller The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power called C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. While The Family, often called The Fellowship, is sort of bipartisan, it is more in name than in practice. For instance, Democrat Bart Stupak was a resident at the C Street house owned by The Family, and he was clearly doing the hardcore social conservative bidding of his Republican fellows in the house, especially Joseph Pitts, who was really the author of the Stupak-Pitts amendment that has been such a disaster for abortion access in this country.