Word: chadness
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...started from the get-go. Bush's joke about half of Congress not inviting him tonight was a tacit admission about how close the election had been. Had Bush talked about fixing America's lousy voting machines - there are bills in Congress to prevent another chad disaster - he would have nailed it even more. But the humility sufficed. His acknowledgment that statistics show a country thriving and stumbling at the same time also seemed to capture the national mood just right...
THUMBS UP Entrepreneurs have wasted no time in seizing the business opportunity created by the Florida chad debacle. On Capitol Hill last week, Identix and EDS demonstrated a voting system that works only after you've verified your identity with a fingerprint scan. Since most voters haven't been fingerprinted, the first users are likely to be the roughly 2.5 million military personnel whose prints are on file...
...usually have short attention spans. Twenty-four/seven cable television may unnaturally inflame and prolong a story (Elian Gonzalez, let us say). But once it is over, it is over. New dramas and sensations supersede the old one, and in time people will not quite remember what a chad was. Further, it would be against the interests of blue America - self-destructive, in fact - for the Democratic leadership to overdo its righteousness and its demonization of the Bush administration. The columnist Michael Kelly has pointed out that a Democratic ideological jihad might have the same result as the Republicans' disastrous...
Defense may win championships, but a pair of suffocating defenses - along with inconsistent offenses - doesn't do much to get the nation excited about the Super Bowl. TV and radio talk show host Jim Rome has already predicted a 3-2 "blowout" victory for the Giants. Columnist Norman Chad has coined the game Super Bore XXXV. And CBS is in a perfect position to sell advertising to Sominex...
...duck presidency. She entered the year as the wronged spouse of a cad. He exits the year as the proud spouse of a newly elected U.S. Senator from New York, of all places. She exits the year as the Republican Party's worst nightmare this side of a dimpled chad. What a turn of events! When Hillary Clinton first paid court to retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed" and "Uh-oh" were prominent among them. When she announced her candidacy, the term carpetbagger...