Word: teams
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...reprieve was short-lived. As happy as Friday night was, Team Gore had known there was a good chance the U.S. Supreme Court wasn't done with this. The morning conference call was no carol sing; it was going to take a lot of work to get the recount machinery going again. And the Republican soldiers, lawyers and politicians alike, were loaded for bear: "This judicial aggression must not stand," said majority whip Tom DeLay...
...next day when the U.S. Supreme Court proved Rove correct, at least for the short term, no one in Austin or in McLean, Va., where the Bush transition team has its headquarters, had the strength to celebrate. "We're too scarred for that," says an aide. They felt a whiff of excitement and boatloads of relief. Dick Cheney was at the movies when the news broke. An aide called from transition headquarters, and Cheney picked up the call in the dark theater. He was watching the new Meg Ryan thriller, Proof of Life...
Perhaps the Gores and Liebermans should see that film, with its talismanic title, on their next double date. In the Gore camp, the latest "psychic blow," as an adviser called it, plunged the Vice President's team back into darkness. They fretted that media opinion had just been turning their way, that with the call to count the votes being heeded, Gore would finally look like a winner. And then the counting stopped. "People aren't in a good mood," says a senior adviser. "Conventional wisdom can gel against...
...could serve him well if the election ends up being decided in Congress. Bush is holding regular discussions on legislative strategy with key allies such as Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, Ohio Congressman Rob Portman and Missouri Representative Roy Blunt, a conservative leader close to Tom DeLay. Bush has a team of lobbyists and consultants--known as the Gang of Six--on call to remind uncooperative members of Congress where their campaign money comes from. And Bush has even weighed in on sensitive G.O.P. leadership decisions, including the selection of new committee chairmen who would shepherd Bush's legislative agenda, House...
...perhaps smarting from press reports about his previous battles with the high court, perhaps just not wanting to do its bidding, recused himself. A second judge, Nikki Clark, declared herself unavailable. So the job fell to Judge Lewis, the level-headed, mustachioed novelist-jurist who had disappointed the Gore team with his ruling four weeks ago backing Secretary of State Katherine Harris. On Friday night, when Lewis held a preliminary hearing to set a timetable for the recount, Bush lawyer Phil Beck staged a remarkable filibuster, a meandering, hourlong statement that seemed designed to delay the counting for just...