Opinion: Republican extremism has blocked compromise, crippled Congress
By Juan Williams - The Hill, 05/07/12 05:00 AM ET
We now have history’s first draft of the story of this Congress. There is so much political fog right now that it is hard to get a clear view of the reason for the dysfunction on Capitol Hill.
But three new books take a step back to get a clear look at the fray, and all three conclude that no-holds-barred, right-wing politics is to be blamed.
Two congressional scholars, Thomas Mann of Brookings and Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, authored the first book —“It’s Even Worse Than It Looks.” They write that today’s Republican extremism has led Congress to be more dysfunctional than at any time after the Civil War.
The second book is journalist Robert Draper’s “Do Not Ask What Good We Do,” a tragic account of far right-wing House freshmen engaging in tantrums and bullying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
(More here.)
We now have history’s first draft of the story of this Congress. There is so much political fog right now that it is hard to get a clear view of the reason for the dysfunction on Capitol Hill.
But three new books take a step back to get a clear look at the fray, and all three conclude that no-holds-barred, right-wing politics is to be blamed.
Two congressional scholars, Thomas Mann of Brookings and Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, authored the first book —“It’s Even Worse Than It Looks.” They write that today’s Republican extremism has led Congress to be more dysfunctional than at any time after the Civil War.
The second book is journalist Robert Draper’s “Do Not Ask What Good We Do,” a tragic account of far right-wing House freshmen engaging in tantrums and bullying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
(More here.)
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I would describe the level of spending and debt that the Republicans and Democrats have wrought as extreme. What have we come to when severe cuts are mentioned over and over again but there is no mention that total spending is up? Is anyone who does not agree with a liberal dysfunctional? Sign me up!
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