Word: jeb
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What are you so frightened of, the Gore camp challenged--that a full recount would reveal what we have argued all along? That Gore won not only the national popular vote but the Florida vote as well? That Jeb Bush is not a controlling legal authority after all? That all those Cabinet tryouts were a little premature? What we are frightened of, the Republicans countered, is a system in which deadlines come and go at the whim of a partisan court, in which fallible vote counters are asked to read minds, in which statutes and procedures and timetables and traditions...
...nerviest decisions in the annals of American law. A bitterly divided 4-3 court ordered that every Florida county tabulate or recount its undervotes. The ruling had Gore partisans extolling the noble tradition of an independent Judiciary--the one actor, in a state run by Republican Governor Jeb Bush and Republican ally Katherine Harris, free to do the right thing. But to the Bush camp, the Florida justices were just liberal power grabbers, intent on overturning a certified election result favoring the Republicans. Florida house speaker Tom Feeney blasted a renegade court, "more partisan than judicial...
...Republicans insist the resolution, which does not require Jeb Bush's signature in case he wants to recuse himself, is merely "an insurance policy," having been told by hand-picked constitutional experts that with litigation still simmering in the courts, Florida could go elector-free if they didn't step...
Will the ersatz Gingrichites take Jeb down with them if they go, or is he leading the leapfrogging of the courts? Should he sign the bill to name electors, he could be signing his political death warrant. His popularity has already slipped 5 points. Up for re-election in two years, he has a black community angered anew over voting-rights violations. Then there are the seniors, who became fair game for driving too slowly, eating too early, and because they couldn't read a ballot although they can manage a dozen bingo cards. There are the Jews, ridiculed...
...Jeb has to wonder why the election has turned into his Groundhog Day. Election night was bad enough. After leaving dinner when Florida was called for Gore, Jeb was back in the family's bosom, a hero for all of 30 minutes when Florida moved back into Bush's column. When the polls shifted again, W. tried to get Gore not to retract his concession by citing Jeb as a controlling legal authority that he had won Florida. W. was wrong then, but may yet turn out to be right. If Gore wins the contest, and the legislature has picked...