Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Longtime Baker watchers have not been surprised at how quickly the former Marine put together Bush's Florida operation. But some have found his public statements unexpectedly shrill and partisan. "He needs to consider how the country perceives the process and the winner," says an old friend. "That does not come naturally to Baker." Another former aide was more outspoken. "He got a little too hot." A master inside operator, Baker has always been a bit weaker at the public side of politics. He made a lot of people wince in 1990 when he said the Gulf War was about...
...Marais replied. The Gore team's projections, he went on to explain, are unreliable because they are based on three heavily Democratic precincts in Miami-Dade County. If the numbers were divined from a more accurate (less partisan) source, Marais concluded, they would be admissible...
...legal particulars aside, the vigorous and attentive grillings of both sides showed, refreshingly, that whatever its failings, our Supreme Court is a body based less on partisan agendas than on the principle of being skeptical, contrary cusses, knocking around those who would dare petition them like ping-pong balls. Some cameras-in-the-courts detractors say that's why it's useless to broadcast SCOTUS hearings live: Under this questioning, even for lawyers it's often impossible to tell whose side the adversarial judges are really on until they rule...
...every other corner of cable news - it is all too screechily easy to tell exactly which side everyone is on. If nothing else, it's good to see one branch of government where some people are actually willing to be vigorous devil's advocates rather than one-note partisan terriers...
...When the Supreme Court speaks, people listen. And if the 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...