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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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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When you have a dramatic expansion of the ability of individual members to direct federal funds or to designate contracts, you are creating the most fertile environment for corruption imaginable.
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What she did just makes you cringe. It's clearly unethical by any standard.
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To a large degree the durability of this compromise is going to depend on the actions of President Bush. He can keep it or blow it up. It depends on what kind of judges he nominates.
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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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My understanding is that now, after taking soundings, he's thinking about running for leader.
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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.
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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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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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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.