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

To: mst2000 who wrote (118112)	12/20/2000 10:54:08 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Was it Lenin who said that you don't need the votes you only need to do the counting? I am sure that some rabid dem can count any stack of votes and find his boy the winner - it won't be the first time that has been done, as we in Chicago know only too well. So you spend the next eight years counting votes and grousing about it publicly and we will get on with the business of governing and healing with a healthy dose of compassionate conservatism. If you keep complaining I'm certain we will feel even more compassionate toward you.

To: mst2000 who wrote (118112)	12/20/2000 10:59:56 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I do not mean that the FSC has no right of appellate review, I mean it had insufficient grounds to overturn, and should probably not have heard the case. After all, the trial judge based his decision in part on determinations of fact, which are rarely subject to appellate review. There is no doubt that the contest may end up in the courts. There is also no doubt that the contest is supposed to terminate in time for the "safe harbor". The SCOTUS did not substitute its judgment on issues of state sovereignty. Based on Article II of the Constitution, it affirmed the right of the legislature to set a deadline for the contest period, and denied that the SCOFLA could suspend that deadline in order to finish the manual recount. As far as the equitability of the recount provisions went, the SCOTUS had a perfect right, under the 14th amendment, to review the scheme contrived by the SCOFLA.......

To: mst2000 who wrote (118112)	12/20/2000 11:43:34 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

The Supreme Court grossly overstepped, in a decision that can only be seen as political, and that will damage the perception of integrity and political impartiality that the Supreme Court has generally enjoyed. I say this not because I am a saddened Gore supporter, but because the majority opinion is an abomination. Love the result if you want to -- it places the second place finisher in the white House, but he is, after all, your candidate -- but don't tell us it was principled or correct, as it was neither. This statement, of course, is ONLY your opinion and one which a majority seem to disagree since most are willing to accept the Bush Presidency. JLA