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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8684)	12/10/2000 12:33:21 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

What? You mean Bush can't make use of "legislation by executive order", as Clinton has? I'm not particularly worried Nadine.... I think all of this BS about partisanship is going to be reduced as Bush incorporates moderate Democrats into his administration. The extremists will always be extreme and cast more heat than light. But the mandate will be for both sides to knock it off and accomplish something. Using a filibuster is a risky strategy, unless it is used on something that has the support of the American people. And the Senator who fouls up the senate by over-using his right to filibuster, will quickly find his access to pork-barrel money for his/her special projects swiftly cut off. Isn't it amazing how many checks and balances exist in our system? Regards, Ron

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8684)	12/10/2000 12:33:31 PM
From: Roger A. Babb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Nadine, I predict that the Supreme Court will order the disputed Florida ballots to be destroyed or at least placed under lock and key for the term of GWB. They must prevent the possibility of it becoming public knowledge that Gore had more votes in Florida. That is why they stopped the count. The first step in destroying a democracy is to control the flow of information to the public. While I am no fan of Gore (McCain was my choice), Saturday was a very sad day for world democracy and freedom. We must be willing to select our officials by fair and accurate voting and then all of us support the winner for democracy to survive. Now that everyone knows how the vote control game is played and that it can succeed even when flagrant, we can expect that future elections will be greatly biased by the control of state and county officials to benefit their party.