AEI's Ornstein Attacks Beck, Limbaugh , and Hannity, Roberts Court in Far-Left Nation Magazine

Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute wrote a piece in the far-left Nation complaining about America's political system. Ornstein is replying to left wing Professor Eric Alterman's desire for more government plundering of the economy through politics:

Money in politics is a major factor as well, and the Roberts Court will go down in history as the Dark Side for unleashing even more big money in an already vulnerable and corrupt system. But there are larger problems relating to modern media and political organizing, our coarse culture of discourse and especially the many factors that have created the monster we know as the permanent campaign. Reforms won't erase these problems, but there is one thing to add to Alterman's list: adoption of the Australian practice of mandatory voting. When politics is driven by the need to turn out your base, and policy is then dominated by the desire to cater to that base, it brings out all the base instincts. In Australia, where failure to show up at the polls (you can vote for "none of the above") leads to a $15 fine, attendance is over 95 percent—and politicians cater less to consultants and the extremes (since both bases turn out in equal proportions) and more to the small number of persuadable voters who are not swayed by outrageous rhetoric. Those voters might not fit the typical pattern of readers of The Nation, but they are a far better audience to cater to than that of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

Is the American Enterprise Institute happy employing big government apologists like Norman Ornstein?