Parliament Of Whores Analysis

The Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government is a political science novel written by non-other than 8 time best-selling author P.J. O’Rourke. P.J. is an American political satirist, author, journalist, and writer born on November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio. O’Rourke graduated High school in Toledo, Ohio and went on to do his undergraduate studies at the University of Miami (Ohio). After finishing up his undergraduate studies he went on to earn his Master’s Degree in English at Johns Hopkins University. He claims that his student days he was more of hippie not really caring for government or anything of that matter but soon enough his views took a turn and he emerged as a political observer and humorist

Shortly after he began writing and publishing books that encompassed his thoughts on the various different topics of government that became best sellers like the “Parliament of Whores”. Today P.J. is still a Political Satirist, journalist and writer expressing his ideas and getting them out for the public to agree, admire, or in some cases reject because not everyone has the same thoughts and views.
The Parliament of Whores: A lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government is an in depth look at not only the American government, but at the concept of government itself in general. O'Rourke debates that the U.S. government is undeniably and irreparably broken, benefiting the worthless at the cost of the American taxpayer. In P.J.’s view, “a functional society lies in the hopes and dreams of individuals, as facilitated by a self-correcting free market”. Mr. O'Rourke believes that when government affects the economics in the world, people are basically silenced and their freedoms

just goes all over the place with his opinions on this countries government policies and such. For example first, O'Rourke studies the way the government spends taxpayer money, coming to a conclusion that America is not serious about facing the many issues it has at hand. Then he continues with saying that the war against drugs is “half-hearted”, there is no real enthusiasm to put an end to drug abuse and misuse. According to O’Rourke, the war against poverty, for the moment, only works to further hurt the problem it is trying to help. P.J. then continues to explain America's farm policy and says that it is so messed up that it is basically paying farmers not to grow crops. O'Rourke continues with his rant and dismisses America's foreign policy as, so far, weak and unimpressive, but he does see a lot potential in America's military technology. He says that the U.S. still has many enemies to deal with so he is against the cutting of military spending. More or less his rant just keeps going on and on about the different aspects of society and government until Finally, in the novel O'Rourke returns to talking about his own New Hampshire town to finish out the novel. In New Hampshire he watched his fellow townspeople and even himself vote for limits on expansion of the town’s sewer system in order to prevent a developer from building a golf course/condominium complex, he comes to the conclusion that after watching