<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the Point of a Non-Partisan Think&nbsp;Tank?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><em>by Conor Clarke</em> </p> <p>The non-partisan Urban/Brookings Tax Policy Center is my favorite think tank, so it&#39;s quite distressing to see my friend Brad DeLong <a href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/08/washington-thinktanks-in-the-twenty-first-century-a-modest-proposal.html">argue that</a> the TPC should &quot;pick a party, support it, and work hard to make its policies the best policies possible,&quot; rather than support &quot;bipartisan&quot; legislation. But much to my relief I I see that Howard Gleckman of the TPC has <a href="http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/blog/_archives/2009/8/20/4294862.html">written a nice response</a>:  I think that&#39;s exactly right.]]></html></oembed>