Word: veep
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...there's a limit. "This cannot go on forever," Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, one of Gore's long-listers for veep, told the Times. The Florida Supreme Court bought Gore some time Nov. 17 when it nixed Katherine Harris's first attempt at certification. The U.S. Supreme Court moved the goal line again on Thanksgiving Friday when it took up Bush's appeal. So when could the next look at a political "forever" come along...
...then, having just come out of a lunch with Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Gore got in a quick comparative dig at his loudly transitioning opponent. Asked if he offered Summers a carryover job in a Gore administration, the veep demurred. "I personally do not feel it is appropriate to announce the names of Cabinet members or to formally offer positions," he said...
...given faulty ballot instructions to thousands of voters, Florida wouldn't be close. But the hand count is his focus; once it is finished, he will be able to move on. "Gore needs this," says a senior adviser. "He needs to know, win or lose." Reid recognized the Veep's sense of isolation. "People feel awkward talking to you. They don't know if you're a winner or a loser," he says. "I was alone a lot. Gore, I'm sure, is also alone...
...Gore will start right away. From his Monday address until the Supreme Court rules, the veep has to rely on the polls that say a majority of Americans still have a feeling that the vote has been kind of fishy. That there are votes in Miami-Dade, in Palm Beach, in some other counties, that were cast by Democrats for Gore with good intention but lousy execution. That those votes are out there somewhere, waiting to be found, interpreted and put in the veep's consistently rising column...
...Whatever number they wind up with may not be good enough for Al Gore. David Boies, the veep's head lawyer and best spinner, says he'll get up early on Monday morning and add Palm Beach to next week's Miami-Dade fight - because he doesn't like the way the dimpled chads are being treated by the county's canvassing board. (They're being counted, but only if the voter poked some other dimples...