Updated for WP link:
Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted from their book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism," which will be available Tuesday.
Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted from their book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism," which will be available Tuesday.
Scott, you can register to the WP for free and see the whole thing. It's a great article.
Thanks for fixing the link. I was able to read three out of the four pages before being asked to join. Without seeing the conclusion I think I know the direction they're headed and have to say the main things comes down to the press/public. Conservatives have waged a several decade war on the press and have finally won.
1) If you call the media liberal long enough then people begin to accept it as fact.
2) Being called liberal for a long time has made the media so sensitive to being perceived as fair that they have become unbalanced in favor of the conservatives. Essentially they have become a tit for tat group that must find a gotcha on the Democratic side every time they point out egregious problems on the GOP side.
3) Congress has negative ratings sure, but who is that negativity aimed at? In general it has become a "vote the bums out" deal when one side is drastically more at fault than the other.
Are we supposed to have an essay or are both links for the book.