Molly Ivins: Flim-Flam and Hoo-Ha

Molly Ivins quotes Billy Don Moyers, [known to most of us as Bill Moyers] formerly of Marshall, Texas, "who was home last week and observed that the Republican right came to Washington to start a revolution and stayed to run a racket. It has become a game of ideological flim-flam, a scam in which all manner of distracting hoo-hah -- abortion, judicial activism, even 'the war on terra' -- is used to obscure the fact that the government has been taken over by people who are using it to make money for themselves and their friends."

Read her column at Working for Change.