Word: ground
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...State James Baker, Bush's Florida mastermind, was quick to point out, the state court's action was "not an order on the merits." It merely preserved the status quo until Monday's hearing. What the court ruling did not do, however, was freeze the action on the ground. Friday night, as the overseas absentee ballots were counted, Bush and Gore forces locked into another round of frenzied warfare--claims of recount fraud in the disputed counties and hard questions about 1,000 overseas ballots, most of them from members of the armed forces, that were rejected mainly because they...
Even as Gore scrambled for the high ground, Bush stuck to his I've-already-won strategy. Only one item was tossed out--the transition posturing that gave rise to that West Wing-style photo op with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting. The Florida battle is so all-consuming that his top people have had to put governance on the back burner; first they have to win. "Right now we're spending every minute managing this," says Hughes...
...team wavered. Two weeks ago, Sharon's chief negotiator, Likud legislator Meir Sheetrit, demanded a decision. "Let's cut the bulls___," he remembers saying. "I want to do a deal on the veto item." Barak wasn't playing. The next day the Prime Minister moved to cut the ground out from under Sharon, appearing on television to deny that he'd given Sharon a veto. And in a one-two punch, the Prime Minister blindsided Sharon by striking a deal with Shas...
...Bush reached it too. "The end of an election is the beginning of a new day," he said in a 7-minute address that seemed to contain large chunks of the acceptance speech he didn't get to give on election night - common ground on education and Social Security, dreams of bipartisanship in the next Congress, praise for the size of the American heart. "Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Bush said. The transition from Austin to Washington will...
...Gore live in it. The uniform code of conduct in a democracy - the assumption of good faith that allows politicians to quarrel one day and compromise the next - was sacrificed to the reality that only one of these men can be president, that there is no middle ground. Each man was so sure he was right that he had a duty to try to win at all costs. And so the costs kept rising...