Extremism In Congress: 'Even Worse Than It Looks'?

[Crabtownboy]

Let's pray the dysfunction does not become worse! The emphasis on nonpartisan positions is mine.

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein are no strangers to D.C. politics. The two of them have been in Washington for more than 40 years — and they're renowned for their carefully nonpartisan positions

But now, they say, Congress is more dysfunctional than it has been since the Civil War, and they aren't hesitating to point a finger at who they think is to blame.

"One of the two major parties, the Republican Party, has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition," they write in their new book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks.

 

[carpro]

It must be a new awakening for Republicans.

Democrats have been "ideologically extreme" for decades.

Some Republicans finally decided to make a stand and are sayinf "NO more".

That make them extreme.:laugh:

The entire artical is obviously partisan and laughable.

 

[mandym]

Crabby just parrots the latest talking points doesn't he?

 

[Robert Snow]

Crabby just parrots the latest talking points doesn't he?

Kind of like you and Limbaugh! :tongue3: