Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government
By Stephen Slivinski
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A scathing look at how the Republican Party, once the paragon of fiscal conservativism, has embraced Big Government and become even more irresponsible with taxpayer money than the Democrats.
Price: $25.99
Publication Date: August 2006
ISBN: 1-5955-5064-X
Number of Pages: 260
Hardcover
Categories: 2006 Titles, Budget and Tax Policy, Government and Politics
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About the Book
Buck Wild offers a scathing critique of the Republican Party and explains how its abandonment of limited government principles jeopardize the future of the Grand Old Party and the nation.
Through gripping narrative and trenchant analysis, Stephen Slivinski tells the surprising story of the GOP's unfortunate transformation, revealing how and why Republicans have:
-become the biggest spenders in Washington since Lyndon Johnson.
-abandoned the keystone principles that catapulted them to power in the first place.
-betrayed taxpayers and fiscal conservatives.
-planted the seeds of their own undoing in the coming elections.
Buck Wild tells the story of how the Republican Party lost its head and also explores urgent questions about the fate of limited government, including whether conservatives within the GOP can save the party from itself before it's too late.
A fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party is brewing. Buck Wild explains how the GOP reached the breaking point and what it means for the future of the party and American government.
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About the Author
Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies for the Cato Institute, is an expert in tax and budget issues at the state and federal levels. Most recently, he worked as a senior economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Slivinski has served as director of tax and budget studies for the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a research associate at the James Madison Institute in Florida. Slivinski has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He is coauthor (with Stephen Moore) of Cato's Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and National Review Online, among others. Slivinski holds a master's degree in economics from George Mason University.
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What Others Have Said
"If you fell into a coma in November of 1994 and woke up yesterday, a lot of things might surprise you. But nothing would baffle you more than what has happened to the Republican Party. Stephen Slivinski can explain. Buck Wild tells a painful story, but it's honest and true and well worth reading."
-TUCKER CARLSON, host of MSNBC's The Situation with Tucker Carlson and author of Politicians, Partisans and Parasites
"Buck Wild does more than reveal what's wrong with the Republicans. It reveals what's wrong with us, the voters who put them in office. Politicians are foxes. But we insist on believing that some are guard dogs. We elect them to watch the hen house, and on the first Wednesday in November there's nothing left but feathers."
-P. J. O'ROURKE, author of Parliament of Whores and Peace Kills
"During the course of Stephen Slivinski's superbly researched chronicle, we meet some true conservative heroes from whom we can draw inspiration for the future. Their constant courage, punctuated by occasional success, tells us that the fight against the Leviathan state might yet be won."
-JAMES P. PINKERTON, White House domestic policy aide under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
"For chapter and verse on the administration's betrayal of fiscal conservatism, look no further."
-The Economist
"Slivinski's new book is the worst kind of news for Republican strategists hoping to spur free-thinking conservatives to the polls this fall. Buck Wild makes a compelling case that the best protection for individual rights (and wallets) in America rests in divided government. And that the best thing voters can do is take Congress or the White House away from the Republicans, and give it to the Democrats."
-Denver Post
"By concisely detailing how the leadership of the Republican party has abandoned limited government and showing the need for fiscal conservatives to look elsewhere for possible political strategies, Slivinski has performed a fine service for his readers."
-National Review Online
"Slivinski draws on his experience as director of budget studies at the libertarian Cato Institute to craft a breezy narrative that traces the devolution of the GOP from the small government party of Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater to a big government party of farm subsidies, bloated highway bills, federalized education, and a Medicare prescription drug plan."
-The American Spectator
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