Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" Lieberman said...
...when Trent Lott denounced the Florida Supreme Court's "unelected judges" for usurping the rights of the people by letting the recounts continue; when Florida Republicans threatened to name their own set of electors to send to the electoral college and count on House Republican strongman Tom DeLay to make sure they get seated; when an angry mob showed up to pound on the doors of the offices where Miami-Dade canvassers were meeting; when a brick flew through a Democratic party office window in Broward County with a note warning, "We will not tolerate any illegal government." Prospects that...
...Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week deadline for the counties to certify their results; and the secretary of state had affirmed it? Now the state Supreme Court was throwing that deadline out and making a new one all its own. That wasn't interpreting the law, it was inventing it. "Make no mistake," Bush said the next morning. "The court rewrote the laws. It changed the rules, and it did so after the election was over." The only way to respond, Bush's aides...
...Congressional Democrats all had their own calculations to make, and the math was not friendly to Gore. While GOP lawmakers were united behind Bush, knowing that their own fortunes depended on having a Republican president to help get anything done, many Democrats privately thought they would be better off if Gore lost. Even some liberal Democrats thought Bush might in some ways be easier to work with in the White House, since he would have a powerful incentive to reach out to them and make peace. Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear...
...find it quite natural to defend the right of the Florida legislature to write and enforce a body of election law that is, shall we say, eminently disputable. After all, there's nothing unconstitutional about confusing legislation. (Suggestion for the next state congress: Leave the deadlines in place, but make the hand counts more manageable by confining them to ballots not read by the machines. And if that doesn't work, buy new machines.) Then again, the high court might side with Gore's insistence that a state Supreme Court deserves the final say. And, by the way, the court...