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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (104519)	12/7/2000 4:42:13 PM
From: Snowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Will Bush Get 'Pearl Harbored'? John LeBoutillier Thursday, Dec. 7, 2000 Fifty-nine years ago today the Japanese surprise-bombed our naval facility at Pearl Harbor. That action plunged the world into the Second World War. Will the Florida courts today "surprise-bomb" the George W. Bush campaign and cause a "constitutional crisis"? Three cases are working their way to a dramatic climax today – Super Thursday. There is the oral argument in the state Supreme Court over the Gore request – denied on Monday by Judge N. Sanders Sauls – to manually count 13,000 votes in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. And there are the two separate absentee ballot request cases from Seminole and Martin counties. And, of course, lurking in the background just in case Team Gore should win a case and actually go ahead – for the first time in the Florida vote – is the GOP-run state legislature, ready in a special session to select a pro-Bush slate of electors to offset anything the Florida courts may engineer. From watching Wednesday’s developments it is clear that, as dead as Gore was Monday night after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Florida Supreme Court’s order and Judge Sauls rejected more counting, the vice president is again alive and breathing. Indeed, the pendulum is swinging back in his direction, mirroring the election campaign and election night all over again. Just when you are certain Bush has won, Gore comes roaring from behind. First, the state Supreme Court scheduled today’s oral arguments. They did not have to do so; they could have just let Sauls’ verdict stand. That has to be a hopeful sign for Gore. Then yesterday’s unanimous, 12-0, ruling from the Atlanta Federal Appeals Court allowing the manual recounts was yet another victory for Team Gore. So, here we are today. While David Boies argues in the Supreme Court, Nikki Clark is writing her opinion on the Seminole case. Watching that for hours on Wednesday, I got the feeling that the judge was clearly tilting toward a finding that intentional wrongdoing and fraud was clearly present in the offices of Sandra Goard and the Board of Elections. The only question is the remedy. Will she just heave out all 15,000 absentee ballots? Or will she mirror Professor DeLong’s ‘formula’ for chucking out a percentage? (The judge seemed particularly frenetic as she took notes during this statistician’s testimony.) Or will she recommend felony charges against the county officials involved – and leave the votes intact? An almost identical case will also be decided today by Judge Terry Lewis regarding Martin County. Team Gore’s strategy: Get ahead through one of these three cases in the Florida popular vote. Once that happens, Gore will appear on national TV and say, "I have won the popular vote nationally and I have now won the Florida vote and thus have won in the Electoral College." Gore is banking on the media and our age of instant communication to offset any attempt then by the Florida State legislature to ‘reverse’ the popular vote by selecting another slate of electors. That is the exact scenario that will plunge us into a true constitutional crisis – two competing slates of electors with ultimate decisions made by the U.S. House, Senate and Jeb Bush. Fifty-nine years ago President Roosevelt proclaimed Dec. 7, 1941, a day that would live "in infamy." How will we remember Dec. 7, 2000? Al Gore won't stop. Read NewsMax.com's urgent