Rush has some interesting insight into the court:
The Gore people are out there just trashing anybody who criticizes the Florida Supreme Court. "Why, we must defer to these fine principled jurists on that court. You rabid conservatives can't keep attacking these fine people." But then, when the Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, stayed the count, these same people launched into them - and bye-bye went the theory of deference.
Add to this the fact that Gore lawyers David Boies and Ron Klain came out, in direct violation of Terry Lewis' order, and talked about the recount. Lewis said, "We are not going to announce any partial results," but the minute the stay took effect, he went out and said, "Oh, this is terrible! We were on the way, we picked up fifty-eight votes, and you know what? Three of those fifty-eight were from really big Republican counties!"
This is a clear violation of the court! This is thumbing your nose at the judiciary. But it's not surprising, because all these people have ever wanted - and they haven't been able to get it in fifteen or twenty counts with every judge in Florida on their side except for Sanders Sauls - is to produce a result somehow, somewhere, someday that shows Gore ahead. This is strictly for PR - yet they haven't been able to do it.
So Ron Klain did his best Saturday afternoon, in violation of the judge's order, to alert the American people that Gore was on the way to finally winning this, and "as we all know," he got more votes. Gore was on his way to proving this before he got cut off at the knees by SCOTUS.
Now, right before the stay, "Little Dick" Gephardt and Bugsy Daley were out there crowing as if the whole thing was finished thanks to the Florida Supreme Court's ruling. They said it was up to George Bush now to concede before the count had even been completed.
Then the stay came in, and a bunch of Democrats went ballistic and asinine. Patrick Leahy and Barbara Boxer attacked the United States Supreme Court. Liberals like Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein forgot how they'd claimed the judiciary was beyond reproach only hours before. Brownstein's Monday's column, for instance, is titled, "In blocking vote count, high court shows which team it's rooting for."
There was a total liberal freak-out over what SCOTUS did here. Yet, whenever the Florida Supreme Court has ruled or even re-written the law for Gore, there was never a peep. There was never any assumption by the press that the members of that court were acting on behalf of Gore. No. They were simply good jurists observing the law.
More evidence of the bias is this guy named Dexter Douglass. He's responsible for seven of these people being appointed, through recommendations to the late Democratic Governor of Florida, Lawton Chiles, and he was at the Florida Supreme Court when oral arguments took place.
So Douglass shows up, without any involvement in the case, and sits in the audience down there in Tallahassee. He's there to send a signal to the justices, "All right, you know why you're here, and you see whose side of the aisle I'm sitting on."
Besides, every justice on the Florida;s supreme court is liberal. They say that one, Peggy Quince, is an independent, but she is liberal - and a Democrat appointed them all. On the other hand, the United States Supreme Court has as even a split as you can get.
Yet nobody in the media points that out. Nobody accuses the Florida Supreme Court of partisanship or even allows the questioning of their motives. It's just one more example of media bias, my friends - and one more reason you need El Rushbo... |
