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...docudrama about the legal-political battle between Bush and Al Gore will remind us of all that again. You might think that HBO would have timed Recount to air around Election Day. As it turns out, the network could not have scheduled the movie better. The Democratic primary, like the Florida election, has turned out close enough that it must be decided by people whom nobody voted for--this time superdelegates, not Supreme Court Justices. With the old electoral wounds being ripped open, here comes Recount like a brimming shaker of salt...
Recount is told largely from the Gore camp's perspective; the Dems even get the marginally bigger stars--Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary and Ed Begley Jr. to the Republicans' Laura Dern, Tom Wilkinson and Bob Balaban. When a Florida court decision holds out hope for Gore, stirring music swells. When Bush recount honcho James Baker III (Wilkinson) walks onscreen, the sound track all but plays Darth Vader's theme...
...history? Bill Clinton, who used his executive authority to create 17 new national parks without congressional approval? Or Jimmy Carter, who in only four years protected more land than Clinton, and supported what would become the Superfund toxic waste cleanup law? (To those of you who would say Al Gore, well, it might be time to let that one go.) Whoever might claim the title, surely it would have to be a Democrat - since everyone knows that Democrats are tree-huggers, and Republicans see the Earth as something that gets in the way of oil, right...
...supports - is exactly the sort of energy policy we don't need, a pandering fix that will barely affect gas prices and only encourage Americans to drive more.) But there are more unlikely green Republicans as well, like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who recently starred in an Al Gore-sponsored ad with current Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling on Americans to set aside their political differences and fight climate change. "You ended up in this space where liberals yelled the word 'environmentalism,' and conservatives always stood on the sidelines saying, 'No,'" says Gingrich. "My view is we ought...
...This is not an issue that should have political sides,” said McCarthy, one of the three American scientists on the scientific panel that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore ’69 last year. “By working with two very disparate communities, people in the political realm will see that unless we work together, we can’t solve this problem...