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...election stays muddled in Florida, could the state legislature fix this? A: Yes. The legislature could reconvene and appoint electors itself. Amazingly, the U.S. Constitution does not require that electors be popularly chosen - only that the states come up with some method for appointing them. Under federal law, the Florida legislature has until Dec. 12 to pick new electors. It could even vote to let the governor pick the electors - but don't count on it. Florida has a GOP-controlled legislature, but it would be toast if it usurped popular control of an election...
...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a swat team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...
...didn't catch Timon of Athens last weekend but still want to get your fix of Shakespeare, then check out Shrew, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, this weekend in the Adams House Kronauer Space. Reduced to a cast of four, this production promises to explore one of the Bard's best known and most controversial plays in a dynamic...
...That [lack of goal production] is not something you can necessarily fix...
...from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all really can't make up your minds, why don't we just - I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix...