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...Since Election Day, Lieberman has been the recount absolutist. The moral certainty that drove some of his Senate colleagues to distraction - when he voted his conscience instead of his party - has provided crucial ballast here. Al Gore, under pressure known to change his story, his message, his demeanor and his clothes, has resisted the weight of opinion in favor of getting it over rather than getting it correct. This has meant that Lieberman, considered a happy St. Bernard in 12 years in the Senate - "as moral, decent and honorable a man as I've known there," said Senator John McCain...
...didn't say that, like Barry Goldwater, he knows he's right. The recount may yet go forward in a race in which the margin of error has vastly exceeded the razor-thin margin of victory. Lieberman faults the media as much as George W. Bush's spin machine for the hole his side finds itself in. And he has a point. At first I thought the media's desire to come to a conclusion whether or not they came to the truth was partly the result of dirty laundry, unrefundable airline tickets and weekends spent doubled up in scarce...
...contrast, the notion of Bush's conceding never comes up. Counting votes is seen as tantamount to anarchy. Citizens as corrupt and dexterous as Las Vegas dealers peeling from the bottom of the deck will steal the election. Never mind that manual recounts are routine and that Bush himself is asking for one in New Mexico. Courts such as that of Judge Sauls are praised, despite his refusal to examine the ballots and his applying the wrong legal standard for a recount: evidence that a different outcome was probable rather than merely placing "in doubt the result of the election...
...Bush team called Friday's ruling a constitutional crisis. But it is a crisis only if they throw a constitutional tantrum. It's properly assumed that a Bush win after a recount will elicit a Gore concession. It's also assumed that a loss for Bush will occasion a power play by the legislature in a state controlled by his brother and, if need be, a power play by his brother...
...Bradford’s stories recount fantastical episodes involving dogs, but many of the stories involving humans are tinted with magical realism and bizarre turns of events. “Chainsaw Apple,” for instance, is a deeply unsettling and deliciously satisfying story concerning a woman whose face is disfigured by a man who tries to carve her initials into an apple she holds in her mouth. In “Bill McQuill,” the narrator nonchalantly informs us, “The train had run Bill over just below the waist, cutting...