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...took the U.S. Supreme Court and its vast store of institutional prestige to end our 36-day national electoral nightmare. When people like Katherine Harris, the Florida legislature and House majority whip Tom DeLay talked about ending the recounts and declaring Bush the winner, they were widely attacked as mere political partisans. But when five Supreme Court Justices did very much the same thing, Al Gore started drafting his concession speech...
...wasn't done with this. The morning conference call was no carol sing; it was going to take a lot of work to get the recount machinery going again. And the Republican soldiers, lawyers and politicians alike, were loaded for bear: "This judicial aggression must not stand," said majority whip Tom DeLay...
...practically every member's vision of bipartisanship is different. Like defining truth and beauty. "There clearly is a lot of leeway in what people have in mind when they talk about bipartisanship," Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman deadpans. Conservative Republican senators in Trent Lott's leadership team, such as Majority Whip Don Nickles and GOP Conference Chairman Rick Santorum, are singing the bipartisan anthem, but they are committed right wingers with aggressive staffs that haven't mellowed...
...after such a bitter ordeal, El Rushbo rips them a new one. The liberals, he says, are more dangerous and partisan now than ever; their way forward as a party now is to make W. fail, and the only way to deal with them is, as always, with a whip and a chair and a revolver...
Divine and RZA are now cracking the whip like senior execs. "We're coming together like we did for the first five years," says RZA. "We see each other at least three times a week, with everybody aware of everything we're doing." Divine, meanwhile, is pushing the group to begin acting as a formal board of directors. The plan is to hire managers to run the business and keep the chubby W on only the handful of products that the entire band endorses...