Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...have been climbed on or graffitied yet. With this piece as the target of contention, however, it has been taken off the Arts on the Point discussion table: "It is more important to move ahead in dialogue with the community rather than keep ["100 Columns"] as a point of argument," concedes Tucker...
...Gore team's popular argument is an appeal to fairness and justice. The idea that, gee, let's count every vote because it's only fair that the person who got the most votes wins the election...
...Bush team's popular argument is an appeal to reason. It's, Look, nothing's perfect, rules are rules, and we don't have time to go through this thing with a fine-tooth comb. Life's unfair; get used...
...same time, I find the Republican argument that the courts are making law rather than interpreting it to be specious. What do you do when you're confronted with incompetent lawmakers and a legislature like Florida's that enacts imprecise and contradictory laws? You can't just throw up your hands and walk away. The court's job is to try to make sense out of statutes that don't always make sense...
...There are other, less happy, outcomes on the horizon as well. Most immediately, the possibility that the high court refuses to pass a sweeping judgment on Gore's ongoing contest in Florida. This would effectively pull the rug out from underneath the Republican argument, and could set them up for disappointment down the road...