Who is Norm Orstein

[erpowers]

He works at the American Enterprise Institute. Is he a liberal who works at AEI or is he another conservative?

[Ruby Romaine]

1. he's another right wing friend of Al's!

[librechik]

2. there are no liberals at the AEI. Ornstein is a bigwig there, too! n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. He's a bad, bad man...go forth and google.

[napi21]

4. Why is he on Al Franken's show?

I thought he was a RWer too, but he doesn't sound like it on Al's show today.

[Ruby Romaine]

5. He's Al's friend(like Liddy)

[napi21]

8. Are you really sure?

I listened to him on Franken, and he had nothing but bad things to say about shrub and everybody else in this admin. If he's really RW, they're going to be really pissed at him today!!!

[AlCzervik]

9. Norm is wandering off the resevration as some of the neo-cons have

Al makes Liddy seem likeable. And don't forget, all those AEI people were all on board for the PNAC and if they weren't they sure didn't show any siddent from it.

[Ruby Romaine]

6. other AEI people, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, David Frum,

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Irving Kristol,Cristina Hoff Sommers...

[11cents]

7. AEI used to be more traditionallly conservative

Focussed on free enterprise kinds of issues, and domestic policy. It's only recently that it became the house organ of neoconservatism. Ornstein's been with AEI since forever, and is kind of a holdover from its previous incarnation. He's one of those denizens of "permanent Washington" who basically exists to be quoted. He's not particularly extreme.

[Redleg]

10. He is the only AEI person I can stand.

Joe Conason interviewed Norm for his book on Bush's lies. Norm seems like a decent fellow in spite of the company he keeps.