What Gore needs, to counter the anti-Clinton, anti-Gore sentiment that's out there for a number of Democrats, is strong labor backing. And this issue is a thorn in the side of organized labor. This is a headache. It's not yet the level of a migraine.
"Norman J. Ornstein" is a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington D.C. think tank. He was the co-writer (along with Thomas E. Mann) of It's Even Worse Than It Looks/It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.
More Norman Ornstein on Wikipedia.Even if the reality is, there's nothing more that he could have done back in Washington or anywhere else ... the symbol matters.
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.
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.
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.
I think it's clear we're in damage control now.
The Republicans will make a bonfire under Jim McDermott.
By any standard this is a low point. It will be interesting to see if Bush goes for a conservative, in-your-face appointment to the Supreme Court to rally the base, which has been more critical than before but has not turned on him.
The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising).
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