Word: argumentative
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...Republicans filed a lawsuit last week in Leon County to compel 14 predominantly Republican counties to get these ballots counted. The Republicans contend that the Democrats had a systematic plan to disenfranchise military voters; the Democrats say they were only making sure that illegal ballots were not counted. The argument that military voters should not be disenfranchised because of factors beyond their control is a solid one, and it has great p.r. value. The Leon County judge listened patiently to the Bush arguments on Friday but then expressed skepticism about whether there was much he could do at this point...
...time the lawless lawmaking was made in the full glare of publicity and with such obvious partisanship. (All seven judges are Democratic appointees; the selection to the court of five of them was strongly influenced by Dexter Douglass, a Gore lawyer who addressed the court during the dramatic oral argument.) And because its very outrageousness--rewriting the rules of a presidential election after the election--dramatizes the extent of judicial usurpation as has nothing since Roe v. Wade...
...argument in explaining to people who actually work for a living why an athlete (or CEO or movie star or TV weatherman) is paid a Dom-Perignon-and-beluga salary for, basically, enjoying himself goes like this: What the market will bear is fair...
Some famous athletes are not only testing the market just now, they're also testing the argument--and our patience. Tiger wants more out of golf: more money, more power. Venus and Serena want more out of tennis. Manny wants more than $17 million a year to play baseball. A-Rod wants more than Manny, and he wants personal lackeys too--presumably to tell him he's worth more than Manny...
...Democrats say it's all a lot of p.r. hooey, including McKay's sudden case of circumspection. Harris' certification is all the Republicans ever needed, goes their argument - why make any more trouble? But with the GOP in charge by 77-43 in the House and 25-15 in the Senate, that is decidedly a minority view...