Lou Dubose has covered Texas politics for twenty-five years. He was worked as editor of The Texas Observer and politics editor of The Austin Chronicle. He is the co-author with Molly Ivins of two New York Times Random House bestsellers (Shrub: The Short and Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America). In 2003 he wrote, with Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid, The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress, released in paperback by Public Affairs in 2006 as The Hammer Comes Down: the Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay. In 2006 he wrote, with Texas Observer editor Jake Bernstein: Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency. In October 2007, Random House released Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch’s Assault on our Fundamental Rights. He currently divides his time between Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C., where he edits The Washington Spectator.