Word: liebermanically
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...leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce. "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" asked Al Gore's running mate Joe Lieberman. "Vice President Gore and I have no choice but to contest these actions." But the Bush team was determined to seize the moment. "At some point there must be closure," said Bush adviser James Baker. "At some point the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point...
...chamber will likely be 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats, but the new president and vice president won't be sworn in until Jan. 20. During those 17 days, the old vice president, Al Gore, will still be president of the Senate and his running mate, Sen. Joe Lieberman, will still be a Connecticut senator. Gore will be able to cast tie-breaking votes to give the majority in the chamber to the Democrats...
...Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle didn't pay it much attention. The current Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, would probably still run the place informally, since Republicans would be in the majority on Jan. 20, no matter which man became president, Daschle aides thought. If it's Dubya, Lieberman keeps his Senate seat and Dick Cheney casts tie-breaking votes to give Republicans control in the 50-50 chamber; if it's Al, Lieberman gives up his Senate seat and Lott controls with a 51-49 majority. Besides, what can you do in just 17 days...
...madness in the post-election haze of November 8. Thousands of voters complained that the ballot's confusing design had led them to punch hole No. 4, for Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster (odd, certainly, for a heavily Jewish community) instead of hole No. 5, for Gore and Joe Lieberman. (The ballot design had been approved by a Democrat, who was trying to enlarge the type for the benefit of those same largely elderly voters...
...Like everything else in Florida this fall, it's gone national. Joe Lieberman was out in front of the cameras in Washington before the committee's gavel was cold, warning that the move would set a "terrible precedent" for future elections and "threatens to put us in a constitutional crisis which we are not in now by any stretch of the word." He asked them, Bush-style, to "reconsider." Gore spokesman Chris Lehane, dusted off for the attack, called the special session a "Bush-brother brazen power play designed to circumvent the counting of the votes in our court system...