Ornstein left Mesa in 1994 to head Continental Express, a commuter line owned by Continental Airlines.
Ornstein wanted to make Mesa bigger someday, but first he had to shrink it.
While getting that carrier off the ground, Ornstein still kept an eye on his earlier airline.
In four years, with Ornstein negotiating deals and refinancings, Mesa bought six other airlines.
In the 1930s Mr Ornstein ended his public performances and was hardly heard of again.
Messrs Mann and Ornstein resist the temptation to look at congressional history through rose-tinted spectacles.
The current era of partisanship was ushered in by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Ornstein said.
"You put all of that together, and you have a toxic stew, " Ornstein said.
Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute recalls a TV ad the Republicans tested in 1982.
Dr. NORMAN ORNSTEIN (Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute): It's a burden in a whole host of ways.
Thompson said Mann and Ornstein would put the information the hearings have produced so far in context.
But Ornstein, a career political scientist (whatever that is), is out of his depth in discussing macroeconomics.
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Had any Congress passed all these measures separately, Mr Ornstein says, it would be considered enormously productive.
In fairness, Mr Ornstein reaches this verdict by taking a very upbeat view of the stimulus package.
In short, Messrs Mann and Ornstein are disappointed in America's voters and have plans to improve them.
Ornstein wanted Continental to spin off the Express subsidiary so he could be boss of his own show.
Dr. ORNSTEIN: If the expectations are high generally, they're highest on the left.
But Ornstein says, as of recent years, simple, obvious niceties were tossed off in favor of convoluted, vicious snipery.
The effervescent Ornstein, now 42, is chief executive of Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group.
But even if Mr Ornstein's fears are realised, a president who cannot legislate has other ways to get things done.
In Poland, Jonathan Ornstein of the Jewish Cultural Centre, said football hooligans in the country are stuck in the past.
When the airline declined the invitation, Ornstein quit to take a job running entrepreneur Richard Branson's new low-fare Virgin Express airline.
Norman Ornstein, a scholar of Congress and the presidency at the American Enterprise Institute, says high expectations are a burden for Obama.
Ornstein learned that when the two were trying to buy regional carriers.
Dr. ORNSTEIN: He would to like to have as a signature in his first two years a transformation of the health care system.
In 1978 Ornstein dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania after his junior year, drove to Los Angeles and, at age 21, became E.
The music-loving public decided that after all it didn't really love Mr Ornstein and his contemporary composers, although what they did was undoubtedly clever.
Ornstein solidified ties with America West and US Airways, which it serves as US Airways Express out of Boston, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Philadelphia and Orlando.
Ornstein's claim that IRS left Crossroads GPS alone is grossly ignorant.
While staying chairman, Ornstein left Virgin's day-to-day management for Risley's job.
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