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"There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the solid support from his base. The question now is whether his performance with the hurricane begins to affect his performance with his base." — Norman Ornstein
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"If you passed a steroids bill now while letting the deficit careen out of control and not doing much to get Iraq on track, they would attract a lot of ridicule for spending their time on it." — Norman Ornstein
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"The pivotal moment in the 1992 campaign was when [the first President] Bush said, 'The economy is not as bad as you think it is'. If this president reaches a point where he's suggesting the same thing -- and that's not far from where they are now -- then they have a problem." — Norman Ornstein
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"This is a major fork in the road for him." — Norman Ornstein
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"Even if [Republicans] were willing to stick a finger in his eye, they won't hold the searching oversight hearings now on how this whole thing came about." — Norman Ornstein
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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." — Norman Ornstein
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"It's the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch." — Norman Ornstein
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"Lobbying is in the DNA of the political process ... and you're never going to get around human nature. So you can't legislate perfection here, but it's very clear that we've gotten lax, and there's an awful lot of money and politics in Washington." — Norman Ornstein
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"Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money." — Norman Ornstein
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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." — Norman Ornstein
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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." — Norman Ornstein
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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." — Norman Ornstein
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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." — Norman Ornstein
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"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." — Norman Ornstein
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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." — Norman Ornstein
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"What they've done, at least, is to give themselves a little breathing room from what was going to be a really ugly confrontation, and one that was a complete lose-lose for Republicans, no matter what." — Norman Ornstein
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"I think it's clear we're in damage control now." — Norman Ornstein
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"The fault line here is really among the fiscally conservative Republicans, who are uneasy about deficits." — Norman Ornstein
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"In some ways there's a real desire to get out of it because you don't want to be saddled with a loss, but if you leave now it's like opting out of the battlefield in the middle of the war and there may be some backlash." — Norman Ornstein
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"This is not just a one-way street." — Norman Ornstein
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"It's just not a realistic budget. It's not a budget the Republicans are going to go anywhere near ... Perhaps the best thing they have going for them is that Democrats really don't have much skill at turning these issues their way." — Norman Ornstein
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