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MORE FAKE NEWS Jon Stewart became must viewing, with bits on the election (Fiasco Preview) and Iraq (Mess O'Potamia...
...which was required by a World Trade Organization ruling, into a $137 billion luau for special interests, including NASCAR track owners, railroads and makers of fishing-tackle boxes. It used to be that such bills came with matching revenue-raising provisions. Not in this Administration. The President signed the fiasco, as he has every other spending opportunity to reach his desk. This, in a year with a $413 billion deficit...
...Iraq war further revealed how little Bush learned from September 11. The president now blames his flawed rationale for the war on bad intelligence, but the “WMD-that-weren’t” fiasco was the second major intelligence failure on his watch. The crucial lesson of 9/11 was that U.S. intelligence needed to be overhauled immediately, before another intelligence flaw imperiled American lives. Bush failed that leadership test with catastrophic results...
That Florida 2000 was a confluence of unique circumstances—technical voting problems, a near tie at the ballot box, and state law wherein post-election challenges were legal—is true. However, as improbable as the Florida fiasco seemed, it will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President...
That Florida 2000 was a confluence of unique circumstances—technical voting problems, a near tie at the ballot box, and state law wherein post-election challenges were legal—is true. However, as improbable as the Florida fiasco seemed, it will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President...