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...
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CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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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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It's a disaster for DeLay. They've not only formally started the process, but this is a public petition.
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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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Some members are pulling the blanket over their heads and hoping the storm will pass. For others, there is also a genuine belief that if you just jump in a spasm of reaction, you could do some things detrimental to a good deliberative process.
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That would have been a big plus for the president. You get the blame when you're the top dog. And in this case, I think there is no doubt that we had inadequate preparation and we've had inadequate response.
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I think Specter is going to be protective of Roberts against what he thinks are intrusive questions. But if he thinks Roberts is not even beginning to address larger questions of philosophy of judging, then I think he'll be unhappy.
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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,
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There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence
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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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But, after the terrible lapses that occurred here, they are going to be on the defensive, and the ability to push other things onto the agenda will be limited.