Messrs Mann and Ornstein resist the temptation to look at congressional history through rose-tinted spectacles.

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This is no trip down memory lane, no backwards glance through rose-tinted spectacles, but an evening walk on Bryher in the Scilly Isles.

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"I think we would be looking at the world through rose-tinted spectacles if we thought it didn't go on, " he said.

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