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To: michael97123 who wrote (182377)	2/24/2006 12:12:31 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Sacrificing Bush on the Altar observer.com Doubleday Speeds Release of Bartlett's 'Imposter' publishersweekly.com To take advantage of the onslaught of publicity tied to Bruce Bartlett's Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, Doubleday has twiced pushed the pub date up, and books are now on shelves as Bartlett increases his media rounds. Bartlett's book got him dismissed from his job as a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative Dallas think-tank, in October 2005. With that dismissal in the news, Doubleday, according to Nicole Dewey, associate director of publicity, set a publication date of April 2006, then late February. When Elisabeth Bumiller profiled Bartlett in her "White House Letter" column in the New York Times on February 13th, it "started the flow of media," according to Dewey and Doubleday rushed Impostor into stores. The initial printing of 50,000-copies has been followed by a second-printing of 9,000 copies. Media appearances have been set with all the usual pundit suspects from the Lou Dobbs/Tucker Carlson set all the way to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Bartlett isn't exactly Michael Moore. He is, in fact, a card-carrying member of the GOP, a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, who worked in the Reagan White House (he is the author of the 1981 GOP mantra for supply-side tax cuts, "Reaganomics") and served as a deputy assistant treasury secretary under the first President Bush. In Impostor, Bartlett heavily criticizes Bush for his deficient spending, his disastrous Medicare drug program; and his haphazard policy development processes which doomed his Social Security proposals. Much like Richard A. Clarke and Paul O'Neill's critiques of the president, Impostor has captured the public's imagination. But why now? "Bartlett is probably the most well respected conservative economist in the country," says Doubleday's Dewey. "Though he's been criticizing Bush's economic policies for three years, space has actually opened up within the conservative movement. There is this schism where there's now room for criticism of Bush and people are willing to hear what he has to say at this point. I think it's just good timing."