"Feeling Your Pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years

by James Bovard

Book Overview

James Bovard is no fan of Big Government in the US and under the Clinton-Gore administration. In his new book, Bovard looks at Clinton and Gore's record on such abuses and absurdities as taxes, gun... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312230826
• ISBN13: 9780312230821
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Serious criticism

This is a must for anyone concerned about civil liberties and individual rights. Democrats take notice!! If you don't why so many Democrats left the Democrat Party, you need to read this book. I was a former Democratic Party activist. Clinton and Gore are the RIGHT WING of the Democratic Party. Clinton's actions in office, as written in this book, prove the point. My home town Omaha is mentioned for misuse of Federal funds.

The Real Case For Impeachment Is Made Here

If even half of this remarkable, lucid book is true - and, knowing the author of "Lost Rights" and "Freedom in Chains," there is little question that "Feeling Your Pain" is a searingly factual indictment, and a frightening exposure of the havoc wreaked upon the Constitution and its protected citizenry by the Clinton Administration - Bill Clinton was impeachable for reasons having not a bloody thing to do with sexual harassment suits, stained blue dresses, or a little perjury, suborning perjury, or obstructing justice to hide a little extramarital nooky in the Oval Office. And it is just as damning an indictment, if read very carefully, of a Republican Party which held control of Congress for most of the Clinton years and saw fit to do little more than turn around, bend over, and bleat, "Thank you, sir, and may I have another?" at nearly every turn of the Clinton screw, making them accessories to a thorough flouting of the Constitution and trampling of the rights and even lives of individual Americans and what remain of their rights and sovereignty. (I hardly need to say that it indicts a Democratic Party which aided and abetted the turns of Clinton's ... at every last turn, effectively letting him make a monkey out of a party which had already long gone ape in the fever swamps of Statism.) This book should be required reading for anyone who would dare to enter the voting booth on November 7.

A passionate argument for freedom

James Bovard is a passionate man, as anyone who's ever spoken to him will attest. He is also- and this will surprise those who read the title of this book- he is a very non-partisan critic, too. Bovard's enemies are not Democrats, but statists- those peopel who would subjugate the rights of the individuals to those of the group. Readers of his other books, like "The The Farm Fisaco", will attest that Bovard has no more love for statist Republicans than he does for statist Democrats.This book is a good summary of what Bovard- and others- feel are the most aggredious offenses against personal freedom of the last eight years. Fans of Bovard will find familiar ground here, as will fans of books like Virginia Postrel's "The Future and its Enemies". But I would also recommend it to die-hard old school Democrats and ACLU card carrying civil libertarians, who may find themselves more in agreement with Bovard and than they might suspect.

Voter Required Reading

I'll not bore you with a lot of verbage.This book should berequired reading for ALL voting adults.It is simply outrageous....

A devastating indictment

I first became acquainted with James Bovard through his book "Lost Rights, the Destruction of American Liberty." That book formed the basis of countless hours of discussion on my radio talk show. "Feeling your Pain" is even better! Bovard has focused on the excesses of one administration --- the anti-rule-of-law years of the Clintonistas. If you have a friend or acquaintance who feels that government is benign -- or who would rather watch pro-wrestling than spend one moment actually discussing politics and government ... then see if you can get them to read just one page from "Feeling your Pain." After they manage to peel themselves off the ceiling they'll become newly aware of the threat present by an Imperial Presidency. Neal Boortz END