Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein
Norman J. Ornsteinis a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington D.C. conservative think tank. He was the co-writerof It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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Everything that surrounded the K Street Project and what flowed from it all of that is under intense pressure.
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Even if the reality is, there's nothing more that he could have done back in Washington or anywhere else ... the symbol matters.
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Even those people in the leadership who've done commendable jobs may find themselves in the cross hairs just because it's possible there will be a more widespread desire for change.
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Lots of members have been appalled at the kind of Gilded Age mentality of the party. Others felt like they had to take one for the team.
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Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.
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My understanding is that now, after taking soundings, he's thinking about running for leader.
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There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the solid support from his base. The question now is whether his performance with the hurricane begins to affect his performance with his base.
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It would have gone past us as just one of those moments where each side was teeing off against the other. But that event punctuated things, and I do think it made a difference in the coverage of the hearings.
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It was very significant two years ago when Greenspan endorsed the first Bush tax cut plan. So his basically lukewarm attitude now, saying that some of these ideas are good things in principle, but not at the expense of large deficits, has to weigh heavily on those moderate Republicans.
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Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
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This is a major fork in the road for him.
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President Bush right now is in the midst of a very severe case of second-term blues.
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President Bush right now is in a very serious case of second-term blues. It may be the avian flu of second-term blues.
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I'm sure that he's growing a little tired of members taking what he believes are gratuitous personal shots at him,