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In the mail: The K Street Gang

The mail brings Matthew Continetti's new book The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine. As a conservative critique of the GOP in Congress, it makes a nice match to Bruce Bartlett's critique of the Bush White House - Impostor. Continetti is a staff writer at the Weekly Standard, who has also been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. His conservative credentials are impeccable. And, like a lot of us, he has seen the conservative revolution of 1994 turn into a mess that serves only to demonstrate Lord Acton's aphorism about power corrupting. The K Street Gang blows the lid off the whole sordid history.