Word: wing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even as Gore scrambled for the high ground, Bush stuck to his I've-already-won strategy. Only one item was tossed out--the transition posturing that gave rise to that West Wing-style photo op with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting. The Florida battle is so all-consuming that his top people have had to put governance on the back burner; first they have to win. "Right now we're spending every minute managing this," says Hughes...
...criminal." His 1,500 acres on the edge of the Negev Desert is one of the few private farms in Israel and a refuge from the controversy that has followed him through 55 years in the military and in politics. Sharon, 72, the leader of Israel's right-wing Likud Party, leans his portly frame against a metal pen, and two dozen startled Awassi sheep suddenly flee across the straw. Laughing, Sharon says, "Even the sheep are afraid...
...kitchen of his farmhouse, he pets a bouncy German shepherd named Schwartz and reminisces about his parents. Samuil and Vera farmed avocados. When the Zionist movement split in the 1930s, they were ostracized for joining the right wing. Their resentment still boils within Sharon, as does their determination. "My parents never surrendered," he says. Neither will he. Barak's chief political negotiator, Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, talked to Sharon each day last week and thinks he can still make a deal. "I'm very happy with what I heard," he says. Sharon was just happy to hear the talking...
Consider those goofy "butterfly ballots" in Palm Beach County. That was a mess, but not a plot. If you're going to rig the vote in a Democratic stronghold, you don't draw attention to the crime by shifting the tally to some right-wing drooler. Even Pat Buchanan was surprised to learn he had racked up votes in condominium precincts made up almost entirely of retired Jews. I suppose it's possible that they loved his position against free trade and have forgiven him for questioning the extent of the Nazis' responsibility for the Holocaust, but I doubt...
...relaxed Bush, who might well be on vacation if he thought he'd actually won, worked like a dog putting on a tableau of transition. He may not be President, but he played one on TV, using the Governor's mansion in Austin like the set of The West Wing, ushering his make-believe Cabinet through iron gates into meetings. He gave up his usual afternoon video games and naps for lunches with his maybe Vice President on a table set with linens and silver, evoking those famous weekly Clinton-Gore meals adjacent to the Oval Office. He shooed away...