Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Democrats say it's all a lot of p.r. hooey, including McKay's sudden case of circumspection. Harris' certification is all the Republicans ever needed, goes their argument - why make any more trouble? But with the GOP in charge by 77-43 in the House and 25-15 in the Senate, that is decidedly a minority view...
...Supreme Court didn't exactly rule against him Monday, but it didn't give him much to crow about. And Judge Sanders Sauls, after a long lost weekend of evidentiary hearings and legal arguments, gave Gore absolutely nothing of what he asked for except a make-or-break in the Florida Supreme Court. It was a very bad day for him legally. Does the chorus of "Gore must go" start tonight...
...Gore gets his hand counts - depending of course on what combination of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade he gets - it will be Bush who will have to make a crucial calculation: Appeal all the way back up to the Supreme Court, or take his lumps and hope to win on the numbers one more time. (That's possible, especially if it's Miami-Dade and Broward on a tighter standard...
...popular call in U.S. domestic politics. Indeed, both the Gore and the Bush campaigns committed themselves during the election to moving the embassy, but they may be reluctant to stir up Arab hostility - particularly if that translated into higher oil prices. Of course, the Saudis are not threatening and make no overt linkage between their geopolitical positions and their stance on oil prices. In fact, Saudi Arabia's official position is that it wants the oil price issue depoliticized. But there is mounting domestic political pressure on the royal family to take a tougher stand on Israel and distance itself...
...Mitchell inquiry. The Palestinian leader is hoping it will endorse his call for an international peacekeeping or monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. That's an idea to which Israel remains hostile, and for obvious reasons: Arafat wants peacekeepers deployed around Palestinian populations to make it more difficult for Israel to annex land if a Palestinian state is unilaterally declared. Of course the best-case scenario for the optimists on both sides is that such a state's boundaries are defined by mutual consent in negotiations. But in the Middle East these days, optimism...