"It's Even Worse Than It Looks"

"It's Even Worse Than It Looks" is the title of a 2012 book by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. Click here for an article in The New York Times, dated April 27, 2012, by Mann and Ornstein. The title of the article is "Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem." Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (probably the most influential think tank in the world, generally considered to be bipartisan), and Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (considered to be center-right).

The article starts off with a reference to the totally irresponsible remark by Congressional freshman Allen West that there were "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who were members of the Communist Party. A lie, of course, and completely unsubstantiated; but such was and is the sorry state of American politics and the Republican party.