Word: governability
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...FARC do have political interests, and in the south of the country, they could probably govern better than the state. As for the ELN, they're almost a resolved case. They're returning to terrorism as a last desperate measure...
...issue, gays in the military, to swamp the early weeks of his presidency and galvanize his opponents. Since Gore would have no political capital to spend, he would navigate with extreme care to avoid all ugly sideshows. And with Congress so evenly divided, he'd know he can't govern without convincing Republicans that he'll cooperate with them to get things done...
...rest of us woke up Wednesday morning not knowing who would be the next leader of the free world, not knowing when we would know, not knowing if the eventual winner would be able to govern with a Senate split down the middle and a teeny Republican edge in the House and a nation so neatly and clearly and evenly divided that it would take a pair of tweezers to find a mandate in the results. Neither side even tried...
...wants to shut the process down while he's ahead, although it's risky to be perceived as having won the presidency after ballots were thrown out in a state run by your brother. But what is everybody else's hurry? It will be hard enough for anyone to govern without a rush to judgment setting off a cottage industry of the grassy-knoll variety. Do we want Who Stole Florida? on the shelf alongside Who Shot JFK? Yet when Gore's deputies threatened litigation, Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes warned that this would be unhealthy for the country. "That...
Also in this issue, Eric Pooley and our Washington bureau report on how the next President will try to govern, and Richard Lacayo looks at the legal intricacies in Florida. Eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. compares this election to weird ones in the past, and Jeff Greenfield and Kevin Phillips analyze the logic of the Electoral College better than I did with my daughter. Our veteran Hugh Sidey, who helped organize the gathering of former Presidents last week at the bicentennial of the White House, writes about that historic mansion and interviews President Bush about his son. Among the other...