Shields and Brooks on Dwindling Civility in Congress

Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including Sen. Evan Bayh's decision not to seek re-election and the role of the CPAC summit in selecting the GOP's national candidates.

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• david brooks
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• evan bayh
• election
• cpac
• gop
• congress

[ishydaro]

I wish some of the cable shows that have political commentators on would take PBS's example and have two adults sit down and talk reasonably about what it happening in the world. Instead, they invite complete hacks for the two parties on so they can spew as many talking points as possible in under five minutes. Cut to the dogfood commercial.

[bigfilmhat]

Yeah, I get a little tired of Ann Coulter and Ed Schultz (or pick your pundits)screaming at each other.

[BeantownJim]

Peoples Public Broadcasting another socialist programming

[boxerinj]

@studio7manga not sure to call them those names, but the amount of corporate influence on PBS contracts the "public" claim (meaning unbiased) it had since the 60s. You have a point.

[michaelispan]

My thoughts exactly.

[weslenforever]

Bayh's decision was not reckless at all. It was deliberately and cynically decided the way it was to put another right wing C Street CULT member in his seat.

[studio7manga]

PBS is awful, no better than a cable news program. Listen to S&B talk about the deficit commission as if it's something that's actually going to help, it's nothing more than a scheme to screw the middle class out of more of their social safety net. Social Security has been running a surplus for years but congress routinely loots it to pay for wars and other useless expenses, but do you hear either one of these guys say that? No. Don't listen to these lying scumbags, PBS should be ashamed.