{"product_id":"9780740792083","title":"Idiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political Untruthiness","description":"\u003cp\u003eNothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.\" --Tom DeLay, America's Community Bankers meeting, March 12, 2003 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* After revealing absurd 911 phone calls and America's dumbest criminal antics, former \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e writer Leland Gregory skewers political pandering and pen-pushing philosophizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. Inside \u003ci\u003eIdiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political Untruthiness\u003c\/i\u003e Gregory offers more than 250 accounts of bumbling bureaucrats on both sides of political party lines:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* David Spellman became mayor of Black Hawk, Colo., on July 12, 2006, a week after pleading guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault for pistol-whipping his wife with a handgun and firing three shots in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* County officials in Vermillion, Ind., were told by state homeland security officials in July 2006 to stop using the special emergency-only highway message boards to advertise their charity fish fries and spaghetti dinners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* District 1 Town Councilor David Watson resigned from his position as council vice chairman on January 23, 2007, after unintentionally forwarding an e-mail to 18 members of the New Elementary School Building Committee. The e-mail contained nine embedded images of topless women under the heading \"This Is National Women's Breast Awareness Day.\" The only other text in the e-mail read, \"Beats . . . Martin Luther King Day, doesn't it?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrews McMeel Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113653125360,"sku":"9780740792083","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780740792083_p0.jpg?v=1769901169","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780740792083","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}