Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Would letting cameras in have ill effects sometimes? Maybe. OK, probably. But this is a country where we don't submit to such considerations. Democracy itself has ill effects sometimes. Voters make bad choices; look at any list of California ballot propositions. We stick with democracy, not because it's always the best system, but simply because it's the right...
...Maybe the greatest benefit of airing the SCOTUS show is an illusory one: It'll simply make us feel more enfranchised, informed and empowered than we are. But that doesn't mean it's not important, above all at a time when half the country is on the verge of feeling electorally swindled. There's a strong argument for broadcasting Supreme Court proceedings because we can, as an unambiguous, if symbolic, statement of who works for whom here. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, we paid for those robes...
...decision comes down for Bush by any score, Republicans will be baying with renewed ardor for Gore's head. A 5-4 decision, and it's pretty much just another partisan shouting match, albeit with both sides striving for the appropriate hushed tones when speaking of the Court itself. Make it 6-3 or 7-2 or more, though, and the buzzword on cable-news correspondents' lips will be "supermajority." And then it starts to echo...
...most state governors still belong to the PRI. The charisma and swagger that helped him sweep out the PRI with only limited backing from his own National Action Party (PAN) aren't going to help him govern - his success now will rest on his ability to cut deals and make alliances...
...will need the congressional backing of many in the PRI and the smaller opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) for his campaign to restructure the security system to make it less corrupt and more responsive. He'll need them even more in his campaign to privatize more of the country's energy sector, which is a tall order in a nation whose electorate thinks of Mexico's oil as a national resource and has blocked every previous effort toward privatization. But in Fox's scheme, privatization remains the key to attracting the foreign investment necessary to achieve his economic growth targets...