Word: could
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...consider the brighter side of derision. Look at this fiasco optimistically. Could it be that we are getting all the nastiness out of our systems BEFORE the inauguration (whoever the inauguree may be) and that once one of these clowns is anointed prince, we will (precisely because of the ordeal of denigration he has endured) embrace him, and, all hatred spent, sail serenely and bipartisanly through the next four years? (In any case, that's what I'm going to ask for when I go to see Santa in a couple of weeks...
...Kennedy, O'Connor and possibly Breyer seemed concerned about whether the case should be there at all. This is particularly significant because they could try to dismiss the case altogether - I could see them in conference trying to argue the case was improvidently granted...
...They could be sitting down to lunch and beginning a discussion right now. Usually, if they hear arguments on a Wednesday, for example, they'll have a Thursday or Friday conference. But of course, this case is following a much faster time frame...
Aides aren't sure yet what Daschle will do with the Senate floor or his Democratic chairmen those 17 days. But if a dispute over Florida's electors ever reaches the Senate - and Gore could cast the tie-breaking vote in his favor - you can be sure Daschle won't squander his short-lived power...
...sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...