Washington entrenched Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow of Brookings Institute, and Norman Ornstein, Resident Fellow of American Enterprise Institute are on C-Span this morning. These two old friends have written a book together. Mann actually used "we" when discussing democrat strategy, and both predict democrat wins in November, as expected, hedging their bets with gobbledeegook. Anyway, this is a good time to post how these two think tanks describe themselves on their websites.
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Brookings Institute
"Research at the Brookings Institution is conducted to inform the public debate, not advance a political agenda. Our scholars are drawn from the United States and abroad—with experience in government and academia—and hold diverse points of view."""
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American Enterprise Institute
"Competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society
"The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare. Founded in 1943, AEI is home to some of America's most accomplished public policy experts--from economics, law, political science, defense and foreign policy studies, ethics, theology, medicine, and other fields. The Institute sponsors research and conferences and publishes books, monographs, and periodicals. Its website, www.aei.org, posts its publications, videos and transcripts of its conferences, biographies of its scholars and fellows, and schedules of upcoming events."
On C-span, Norm Ornstein discussing Mike DeWine says, he's in a tough race, this might be the year when even in red states, democrats do well.
Mann practically mocks the Bush plan to democratize whole cultures, cites William F. Buckley and Pat Buchanan, two opposites who oppose Bush now.