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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It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.
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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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President Bush right now is in the midst of a very severe case of second-term blues.
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Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.
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There is extreme nervousness about November. The last thing that members want is to be out there in a tough campaign, where the wind is at your face, defending the indefensible.
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What they've done, at least, is to give themselves a little breathing room from what was going to be a really ugly confrontation, and one that was a complete lose-lose for Republicans, no matter what.