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Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann tell the media “a balanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality.” Two leading political scholars — representing the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the centrist Brookings Institution – have published a must-read article, “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” I’ll excerpt the piece by Norman Ornstein and Thomas [.
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At Mother Jones, David Corn writes, Obama Should Play the Blame Game: In a noble effort, Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, earlie... Read Post

Thomas E. Mann (l) of Brookings and Norman Ornstein (r) the American Enterprise Institute put the blame where it belongs. We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them thi... Read Post

Thomas E. Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, are well-respected centrist congressional experts who are often cited by the media. But their... Read Post