Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, entrenched members of the punditocracy, and therefore very serious people, have just written an opinion piece in which they announce to a startled world that it is the Republicans who are responsible for the present state of our dysfunctional government. This bombshell revelation, exposing a fact previously known only to every blogger to the left of Attila the Hun, and Paul Krugman, has struck wonder and amazement among beltway denizens.
Will they be forced to abandon their narrative that both sides do it, and the truth always lies in the middle, in the face of Ornstein and Mann’s persuasive argument? The facts seem to support Ornstein and Mann, but, on the other hand, the Republicans say…
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