"Why Washington Gets Worse Every Year"
Gregg Easterbrook is a visiting fellow at The Brookings
Institution,
senior editor of The New Republic,
author of The Here and Now and The Progress Paradox.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
6 - 8 p.m.
The Brookings Institution, Somers Room
1775 Massachusetts Avenue
Washington DC
$15 per person
includes presentation and refreshments
Reservations are required and limited.
Please call (800) 852-6519 to place your reservation
by Monday, March 7.
The program is presented by Colorado College Visiting Professor
Peter Taylor
and current CC students studying political economy in Washington DC during
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"A lot of things get more efficient all the time - technology,
communication, political gridlock. Attack advertising, focus groups,
block-by-block demographic analysis, house-by-house redistricting: every
year the Washington political system gets better at the things that
make for partisan gridlock. Meanwhile the media get ever-better at trivialization
and scandal-mongering. The politics of the federal government appear
locked in a spiral of decline, which may not change for years."
- Gregg Easterbrook
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