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...performer joked that Harvard seniors need not worry if their test scores were too low for acceptance to graduate school--the new tradition is to demand a recount...
...Street Journal editorial page might never get over it. And it might be really, really hard to do, now that Clinton has spent the week making headlines by taunting Bush at every stop on his farewell tour, lauding the "Gore victory," suggesting that Bush won by stopping the Florida recount--and, for good measure, saying he had some untold jokes about Bush's failed nominee for Labor Secretary that would leave his audience "howling in the aisle." A pardon? How about a punch in the nose...
Despite the shameless Republican spin since election night about vote counting, and the hypocrisy of wanting ballots counted when it suited the G.O.P. and not wanting them tallied when it didn't, the simple truth is that the Bush team prevented a proper recount on the presumption that it had lost Florida and therefore the presidency. Aided by a partisan Supreme Court decision, Bush is now President-elect. He may have the largely ceremonial public endorsement of his former opponents, but this does not make him a legitimate President. Politically speaking, the Republicans got away with murder. JOE MANRESA Schiedam...
...ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the recount of votes in Florida [PERSON OF THE YEAR, Dec. 25-Jan. 1], thereby awarding the presidency to George W. Bush, made one thing crystal clear: the Land of Liberty now has a government of the lawyers, by the lawyers and for the lawyers. What's next? In lawyers we trust? DORAISWAMY NARAYANAN Mitcham, England...
...reason why the election conflict brought so much anguish was not that feelings ran deep--they always do, in every election--but that the American political system was forced to resolve both the technical and the political questions at the same time. For the Florida Supreme Court examining "hypertechnical" recount requirements and for the American people examining the electoral college process, no apolitical answer existed to the apolitical questions. Everything from the mechanics of chads to the machinations of lawyers--every hard-and-fast judgment, indeed every number, became a subject for political debate, culminating in the public's introduction...