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...issue is judicial supremacy. We acquiesce to it for one very good reason. The reason is not theoretical (it being hard to understand why the one unelected branch should be supreme over the other two) but practical. We all need a place where the buck stops. When Nixon and Congress were at odds over the White House tapes, the supremacy of the Supreme Court enabled a final resolution of the issue...
...Unlike the legislature, it can raise no revenues. Unlike the executive, it commands no police forces. Its power rests entirely on people's belief in its legitimate authority. But that belief can--and should--be forfeited when courts do what the Florida Supreme Court has done: wantonly usurp their two coequal branches, denying both the plain language of a law and the plain authority of the official elected to administer that...
There is a certain hilarious motif of dynasties at work. Henry Adams said he grew up thinking every respectable American family included at least one President. His had two--John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The Bushes would like to make it two. The Clintons would like to make it two in the same generation...
...deficient personality, and Bush's is a dull, incurious brain. I have sometimes suspected the reverse: that Gore is a nicer guy than imagined but not as smart as he would like everyone to think; and that Bush is smarter, but a lot less nice, than he seems. The two men even out, in some irritating...
...couple of years--the power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should grow a beard, discard his ego and, for two years, listen to people. He should learn to walk like a normal human being...