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The Bush team called Friday's ruling a constitutional crisis. But it is a crisis only if they throw a constitutional tantrum. It's properly assumed that a Bush win after a recount will elicit a Gore concession. It's also assumed that a loss for Bush will occasion a...
On that occasion, the Clinton Administration launched cruise-missile strikes on the Afghan camps as well as on an alleged nerve-gas plant in Sudan. The attacks were widely dismissed as doing nothing more than burning a few tents, though a senior Clinton Administration counterterrorism official claims that bin Laden...
Five: Rise to the occasion
No gathering was too august for this occasion, of course, and indeed this joint session was super-charged, adding Rudy Giuliani and Tony Blair while subtracting Dick Cheney and Dick Armey just in case, though the helicopters circled overhead.
There's an air of surprise at how so many working stiffs rose to the occasion. But there shouldn't be. The FGB would have helped perhaps, by sending his chauffeur back in to help. The surprise comes in part because those celebrated, elevated, lionized, and lavishly compensated in our...