Bootleggers and Baptists: a winning coalition -- Bootleggers, politicians, and pork -- Why Baptists? -- Sin and substance: who are the real bootleggers and Baptists? -- The rocky road to climate change legislation -- TARP: a bootlegger without a Baptist -- Obamacare: too big to plan (or stop!) -- What have we learned? When will it end? -- Appendix: Bootleggers and Baptists: the education of a regulatory economist.