Book Reviews

It's My Party Too

by Christine Todd Whitman
The Penguin Press, 2005

Christy Whitman led the Environmental Protection Agency for the first two-plus years of the Bush administration. She'd been a moderate Republican governor of New Jersey, and there was hope that she would be able to balance the more extreme policies of much of the rest of the administration, which turned out to be a mostly futile hope. A particularly telling story in It's My Party Too recounts how the president, despite Ms. Whitman's best efforts, reversed a campaign promise to limit carbon dioxide emissions that are wrecking the climate -- at the behest of the coal industry and its political allies./But the heart of the book is an informal but powerful plea that the Republican party repudiate its lurch to the right: "There is no doubt in my mind that the rise of the social fundamentalists wing of the GOP is a serious threat to the long-term competitiveness of the Republican Party. . . .The social fundamentalists could even cause the party to lose its hold on the Congress and the White House before the end of this decade." Interesting indeed, particularly when the Democrats are debating whether they most move to the right to regain power.

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