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...lecture without wasting time with fast-forward or rewind. Granted, streaming video over the Internet has not yet matched the quality of VHS video. But the sound comes through clear as could be, and the drawings on the blackboard are accurate, even if it is after a few second delay...
...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...
...managed--a way that 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...
...Saturday Gore's contest of the election in Sauls' courtroom continued at a glacial pace, bogged down in statistics and chads, just as Bush's lawyers had hoped. Every delay brings them closer to Dec. 12, when the states must appoint electors to the Electoral College. Even if Sauls does rule in Gore's favor this week that some 14,000 ballots from heavily Democratic areas must be counted, the counters may not have enough time to get it done...
...with the entire press corps in Tallahassee, no branch of government worth its salt wants to be left out of a constitutional drama. And there's a branch of the Republican Party willing to go down for a cause--like Newt Gingrich, the impeachment posse and majority leader Tom Delay--even if it's in flames. Feeney was willing to give Jeb a pass on signing any bill, but Jeb enthusiastically jumped in, calling the maneuver "an act of courage," and saying "I can't recuse myself from my constitutional duties as Governor...and I can't recuse myself frankly...