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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (560)	12/8/2000 10:48:16 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

an editorial opinion from Bush Watch ------------------ THE FIX IS IN FOR AN ILLEGITIMATE BUSH PRESIDENCY Let's be deductive rather than inductive with respect to this presidential campaign. Rather than watching events that appear to be moving toward a Bush presidency, lets assume a Bush presidency and work back to the events that needed to happen in the last week or so in order for that circumstance to come about. First, Bush needed to run out the clock. It should be clear by now that if all of the contested votes were counted Gore might very well have won, so the legal system had to be employed to prevent that from happening. While it appeared that the Florida Supreme Court gave Gore the legal basis for having the votes counted, that same court didn't give him enough time to do so, particularly since it made no provisions to protect the counting process from the anticipated intimadating mob tactics of the Bush forces. The next step was for the Scalia-led U.S. Supreme Court to somehow invalidate the decision of the Florida Supreme Court and be unanimous in doing so. Parallel to this, Gore's contest of the election results in Judge Sauls' Florida court had to fail and be appealed to the Florida Supreme Court. Today, the Florida Supreme Court will find in Bush's favor. The court has indicated that it now feels intimidated by the U.S. Supreme Court and has said that now there is not enough time to count the votes. While two years ago it publicly humiliated Judge Sauls, noting "the continuing disruption in the administration of justice" in his court, don't look for the court to overturn his pro-Bush decision that flies in the face of Florida law. (Keep in mind that every third case decided by Judge Sauls, a Scalia constructionist, has been overturned on appeal.) Further, don't expect Gore to be helped by any findings by the courts hearing the Seminole and Martin absentee voting fraud cases. In both cases, the Bush lawyers have admitted that the Florida voting ballot laws have been broken, but no matter. You see, the judges will decide that the will of the voters is more important than any laws broken with respect to the manner in which those votes were obtained by the county voting boards. Of course, this is exactly what the Florida Supreme Court contended when it gave Gore the right, but not the time, to have the votes counted. At the Florida Supreme Court, the Bush lawyers argued in favor of the rule of law at the expense of the will of the voters. In the Seminole and Martin cases the Bush lawyers argued in favor of the will of the voters at the expense of the rule of law. Is there any wonder George W. Bush is arrogant? At every turn, his long-held assumptions about the way the world works are being reinforced. He knows that he and his backers will do whatever it takes and say whatever is needed to win. He knows that his backers are in key positions on every level and throughout every branch of government and the media, and they will do what is needed to have him win. After all, it's in their best interests to do so. It's just business as usual. One hand washing the other. After today, Bush's next step will be to convince the majority of the American people that he is justified in making decisions in their name. Although fewer Americans voted for him than for Gore, although, when the votes are actually counted and the charges of voter discrimination are found to be true and it will be discovered that Gore won in Florida as well, thereby winning the majority of electoral college votes, Bush will not only have declared himself the victor, he will have declared himself "legitimate" on the basis of the above politicized court opinions. Then the media will begin to beat the drum about the Bush "mandate," which will allow him to begin to carry out his ill-informed economic policies, creating the recession that he and acting-President Cheney have already blamed on the Democrats. Relax this weekend. The Bush campaign for his second presidential term will probably begin on Monday. --Politex, 12/8/00 geocities.com