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...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...
...means to do so." He may have a point. Opponents voice philosophical and practical objections. Adoption of the amendment, they say, would amount to writing into the Constitution a hotly disputed economic theory, one that posits budget deficits as the root of all fiscal evil. Asserts Political Scientist Norman Ornstein of Catholic University: "The Constitution is not supposed to make economic policy." Some 80 economists, led by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, have signed an open letter to members of Congress contending that the amendment would rob the Government of needed flexibility in adjusting spending and tax plans. There are doubts...
Following John Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson en joyed a burst of support from the Congress he knew so well, but that romance lasted only 18 months. Says Political Scientist Ornstein: "We have never had sustained congressional-presidential unity for even one full term...