Word: make
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...practice serenity. Let us study acceptance. Don't demonize, don't gloat. This abundant democracy tolerates all manner of idiocy and license; now isn't the time for those. God knows the next four years will witness an institutionalized vindictiveness sufficient to make the incumbent wish he were back in Austin...
...first major hollow political offer, back in November, for a statewide hand recount, and the constant and often eloquent calls to "count all the votes." He must hope we will remember those for their principle rather than their application, because neither was a request his lawyers ever bothered to make before a court. (By Monday's oral arguments, the mantra and its disconnect had even become a joke to Justice Souter. And to Boies...
...what little post-SCOTUS suspense there was percolate until morning. If you wanted closure when midnight struck and the "safe harbor" Rehnquist chose was a dry bed, it was possible to think the lowest of Gore. Would he call the U.S. Supreme Court "no controlling legal authority," and make one last...
...Democrats made sure the Supreme Court would never again be able to meddle with their election as long as they got their state business done six days before the electoral college voted - the safe harbor. (Sure, this was a law designed by and for segregationists, but that doesn't make it any less lawful.) And 124 years later, the five Justices who risked politicizing the highest court in the land by effecting George W. Bush's inauguration knew from history that it could get a lot worse...
...Netanyahu's popularity may be the surest sign that Israel is in no mood to make peace right now. He has already begun campaigning, playing on Israeli anxiety in the face of the renewed Palestinian intifada to charge that Barak's peace efforts have compromised Israel's security, and promising a return to his peace-through-strength philosophy. It may be a measure of the depth of their fears that many of the same Israeli voters who drove Netanyahu out of office only 18 months ago for his failure to make meaningful progress toward peace with the Palestinians...