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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (111029)	12/11/2000 5:18:42 PM
From: brutusdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's funny that you used that terminology. At least one newspaper agrees: dailynews.philly.com Just when you think this presidential election may end with a satisfying conclusion - with all the votes counted in Florida - the forces of George W. Bush succeed in obstructing the truth. Sadly, it's the U.S. Supreme Court that has signed up as Bush's transition team. In stopping this weekend's hand recount of the votes missed by Florida's counting machines, the court's five conservative justices have brought shame to their institution. Their ruling went outside tradition and law, as the four dissenting justices rightly pointed out. While Justice John Paul Stevens cites case after case on why the hand recounts should continue, Justice Antonin Scalia cites no law, only the notion that any act that calls into question the legitimacy of a Bush presidency should be stopped. Apparently any act includes counting votes missed by a machine. The hope that the court would rule on this debacle in a nonpartisan way have now been dashed. We looked to this court for a ruling affirming the rights of voters to have their ballots counted. We may still get that. But pardon us if we suspect the fix is in.