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<title><![CDATA[Norman Ornstein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15922.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Norman Ornstein]]></description><category domain="15922">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Jim Crow 2.0: SAVE America Act Is a Poll Tax, Plain &amp; Simple]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jim-crow-redux-save-america-100000431.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and MAGA Republicans in and out of Congress are putting on a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' full court press'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to get Senate Majority Leader John Thune to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' blow up'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the Senate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s filibuster rule to jam through their SAVE America Act, which they regularly talk about as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'voter ID...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is No Sugarcoating the Mess Dems Are In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-no-joe-democrats-cant-164011842.html#:'&#'.ord('~').';':text=Opinion%3A%20No%20Joe%3F-,The%20Democrats%20can't%20indulge%20in,free%2Dfor%2Dall%20open%20convention&amp;text=The%20news%20from%20Milwaukee%20and,as%20the%20Democratic%20pr</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lot of Democrats want to jettison Biden and let the wild rumpus begin in Chicago at the party convention. A little history is in order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Lie 2024 Voters Are Telling Themselves]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/biggest-lie-trump-biden-2024-voters.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The system is holding is not a plan for a knowable future. It never was.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I've Witnessed the Decline of the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ive-witnessed-the-decline-of-the-republican-party/ar-BB17DKjC</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have been'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' immersed in national politics in Washington for five decades. Over my time here, as an academic, a congressional staffer, a think tanker, and a commentator and public figure, I have gotten to know and worked with a wide range of key actors in politics and policy. I have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jerry Nadler Was Born to Battle Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/153455/jerry-nadler-born-battle-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Judiciary Committee chair has been preparing for this moment for decades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Broke Congress. Democrats Can Fix It.]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/152127/republicans-broke-congress-democrats-can-fix-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A roadmap for House Democrats between now and the 2020 election]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Cause of the Last Shutdown--&amp; the Next One]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/why-the-government-shut-down/551402/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Chuck Schumer and his Senate Democrats, the reaction since the government shutdown ended has been nothing short of brutal. Schumer and his colleagues are being hit from all sides: Trump and his acolytes like Brit Hume who are contemptuous of the cave-in, pundits like David Brooks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Is Helping to Save Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/24/how_trump_is_helping_to_save_our_democracy_135080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The election of Donald Trump could be one of the best things that ever happened to American democracy.
We say this even though we believe that Trump poses a genuine danger to our republican institutions and has done enormous damage to our country. He has violated political norms,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans, Forget Your Obstructionist Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/memo-to-gop-forget-your-obstructionist-policies-they-backfired/2016/09/02/a8f3a3dc-7116-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I met Tom Korologos in 1970. I was doing interviews for my dissertation on congressional staffs; he was the top staffer for Wallace Bennett, a veteran Republican senator from Utah. Tom not only granted me an interview but also gave me a ton of time and valuable insights. He knew and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Bernie Sanders Can't Govern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/why-bernie-sanders-cant-win-and-cant-govern/460182/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At this polarized moment, it's incremental change or nothing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Supreme Court Disarm the White House?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/opinion/disarming-the-white-house.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AMID the coverage of the Christie controversy and the latest budget deal, it was easy to miss the news about last week'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning. And yet the Canning case represents the biggest threat to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans and the New Politics of Extremism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/09/14/mann_and_ornstein_brighter_future_for_politics_and_policy_requires_a_different_republican_party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The resolution of the fiscal cliff showed both that dysfunction continued to be dangerously high and that any successes in policy making through at least the remainder of the 113th Congress would come via the route of bipartisan supermajorities in the Senate (with a half dozen or more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Must Step Up to Plate on Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/obama-takes-riverboat-gamble-on-syria-20130904</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had a robust list of topics I was going to write about after Labor Day, but how can one write this week about anything other than President Obama's surprising (to say the least) announcement that he would submit to Congress a resolution to authorize the use of force in Syria? I believe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Contemptible Attempts to Sabotage Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/washington-inside-out/the-unprecedented-and-contemptible-attempts-to-sabotage-obamacare-20130724</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Mike Lee pledges to try to shut down the government unless President Obama knuckles under and defunds Obamacare entirely, it is not news'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it is par for the course for the take-no-prisoners extremist senator from Utah. When the Senate Republicans' No. 2 and No. 3 leaders, John...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Golden Era of Liberal Senators]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111731/welcome-another-golden-era-liberal-senators</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most stunning outcomes of the 2012 elections was the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' two-seat gain in the Senate. With 23 seats at risk to only ten for Republicans, Democrats were hoping simply to hold their own or keep their losses to a minimum. A gain of a single seat was almost wildly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP, Not Obama, Is the Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'78 to 81'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Shouldn't Move to the Center]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/96784/obama-brooks-reelection-independents-partisanship</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his continuing, illusive quest for the Grand Bargain, New York Times columnist David Brooks has now offered some free campaign advice to President Obama: Drop the angry and divisive populist talk; link your reelection to the Congressional supercommittee to tackle the deficit; lower...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Can Win While Unpopular]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/93618/obama-ornstein-reelection-truman</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With an economy seemingly on the precipice of a renewed recession, an angry conservative movement that regards him with disdain, and a disillusioned liberal base disappointed in his first term, Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bid for reelection next year will, by all indications, be a tough, maybe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Very Productive Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012902516.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama urged lawmakers during his State of the Union speech to work with him on "restoring the public trust," he was hardly going out on a limb. The Congress he was addressing is one of the least popular in decades. Barely a quarter of Americans approve of the job it's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Savvy Health-Care Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083102913.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Franken Will Be a Superlative Senator]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=20ee525b-8ca1-400e-b530-adb6db689c36</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A full six months after the freshman class of senators was sworn in to the 111th Congress, Al Franken is now joining its ranks. Partly because of the circumstances--an election decided by 312 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, a protracted legal battle--and partly because of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress: Beware of Growing Populist Anger]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei.org/article/100601</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Bush'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Gentlemanly Goodbye]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/opinion/20ornstein.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Deep Hole]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ornstein9-2008nov09,0,4539486.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Back to the Center]]></title>
							<link>http://aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28215/pub_detail.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norman Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pity the Undecided Superdelegate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ornstein1-2008may01,0,148421.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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