Word: ornstein
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...ranks ahead of the president of any major corporation, of any banker but David Rockefeller. Such ratings, as Catholic University Professor Norman Ornstein sensibly observes in the same issue, "underscore the power of personality, notoriety and the perception of power, as much as its reality...
...arriving at the sensible center," contends Norman Ornstein, Catholic University's government scholar now on leave at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. "This Government is working just about as well as any system could...
Such heresy is the trademark of the genial Ornstein. He listens patiently to the endless yammering of the special interests and the experts, then gently suggests that they step back and look at the forest instead of their own imperfect tree. "James Madison [the Federalist) would be pleased if he were here," declares Ornstein. "The best features of the checks and balances are in play. We are not being dominated by sets of insidious special interests. We are arriving at a set of centrist and sensible policies...
...works. Something is always out of plumb in Washington, and many interested people have come to help out. On some nights the crowded federal city has a significance gap. Stories and lamentations about agency favoritism, staff frictions, congressional capriciousness obscure the sum. "The bottom line is good," insists Ornstein...
...Ornstein suggests it is time for academics to redefine "government." True, its heart still is the courts, the Congress and the Executive. But the special interests, the media, the experts have grabbed a larger share of the power. We pay a price sometimes in delay and frustration. "There is the old saying that one should never watch laws or sausage being made," says Ornstein. "We've opened up this Government so much that it is like having an entire sausage factory on the nightly news. The process may not look like much, but the product is good...