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Good Riddance to Decade That Began With Theft of the Presidency
Nation ^ | December 31, 2009 | John Nichols

Posted on 12/31/2009 4:20:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The original sin of the good-riddance decade came in December of 2000, when the United States Supreme Court intervened to stop a complete recount of the votes in Florida and then declared George Bush to be the president.

This extreme judicial activism was not merely a devastating assault on American democracy. It set in motion the Bush presidency, and with it the pathologies that the Bush-Cheney administration imposed on the country in the form of unnecessary wars, failed economic policies, assaults on civil liberties and crudely divisive and hyper-partisan governance.

Bush, Dick Cheney and aides are surely to blame for much of what ailed America during the 2000s, and for what will ail America for decades to come.

But it was the U.S. Supreme Court's unprecedented meddling in the presidential election process – an intervention that would have horrified the founders of a republic that was supposed to enjoy a separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers – made the Bush-Cheney interregnum possible.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2000; algore; floridarecount; goodriddance; lockbox; psychosis; riskyscheme; runslikeagirl
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1 posted on 12/31/2009 4:20:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Excellent picture that perfectly depicts the disgusting theft attempted by the left of the presidency. Remember when they tried to count the votes behind closed doors?


2 posted on 12/31/2009 4:24:48 AM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Repeat a lie often enough, and sheeple will believe it.

The truth is that the SCOTUS kept GORE from stealing the election...THANK GOD!


3 posted on 12/31/2009 4:25:25 AM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pres. Bush (a real natural citizen) actually won the election.

Nation Magazine joined in to try to fool America leading to
the coup d’etat that put in the undocumented Marxist
Kenyan by voter fraud, by prostitution for voters,
by ACORN multivotes (ignored by the DOJ) and a DOJ-Holder
coverup of voter intimidation (now encouraged by the DOJ).


4 posted on 12/31/2009 4:25:41 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It set in motion the . . . , failed economic policies, assaults on civil liberties and crudely divisive and hyper-partisan governance.

Note to John Nichols:

You ain't seen nuthin yet. It has gotten a lot worse since Jan 20th of 2009.

5 posted on 12/31/2009 4:25:44 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I am tired of being PC. It's time for torches, pitchforks, tar, feathers and GUNS.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Decade isn’t over.


6 posted on 12/31/2009 4:26:47 AM PST by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or you excited to come to America?")
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To: A.Hun

” Repeat a lie often enough, and sheeple will believe it. “

Including the lie that this is the *end* of the decade??

It takes real talent to get two things wrong in the same headline.... ;)


7 posted on 12/31/2009 4:28:20 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: A.Hun
Repeat a lie often enough, and sheeple will believe it. The truth is that the SCOTUS kept GORE from stealing the election...THANK GOD!

100% true. And the liberal lie fails to admit the fact that it wasn't Bush who pushed the issue to the SCOTUS, it was Gore. Bush was the winner and Gore had conceded...then unconceeded and kept trying to get the rules changed. The SCOTUS just didn't let him complete the theft effort. And now we can see how insane Gore is, as you said, thank God Gore didn't win.

8 posted on 12/31/2009 4:28:54 AM PST by highlander_UW (...one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress - John Adams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

9 posted on 12/31/2009 4:29:25 AM PST by maggief
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think I just barfed up my last meal from a previous life...


10 posted on 12/31/2009 4:29:30 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 343 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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No barf alert?


11 posted on 12/31/2009 4:29:36 AM PST by villagerjoel (1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
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To: A.Hun

Have yo7 noticed that the left always wins recounts?


12 posted on 12/31/2009 4:30:05 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The original sin of the good-riddance decade came in December of 2000, when the United States Supreme Court intervened to stop a complete recount of the votes in Florida and then declared George Bush to be the president.

I can remember when I heard about 9/11 thinking "Thank God Algore is not President, and I know I was not the only one.

This Obozo waits 3 days to comment on the Detroit incident, and Bush was roundly criticized for finishing reading to children.

13 posted on 12/31/2009 4:30:14 AM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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Good point, but I gave up fighting that argument when the millenium ended in 2000! LOL

People are so dumb..........


14 posted on 12/31/2009 4:30:18 AM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: A.Hun

Based on the last couple of months of sound bites from AlGorebasm thank the Lord.
“Jhhust thew khilometeres down the eharth is incwedibly hot sheveral MHILLIONN degwqees....”


15 posted on 12/31/2009 4:30:20 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: A.Hun

I don’t remember which newspaper(s) did it, but some rags that were not known for being particularly conservative did their own personal re-canvas of the votes in Florida during 2000. All concluded that Bush had the votes. This “Nation” sub-rag (not even worth being called a rag) is just a cheap agitator which has neither facts nor law on its side.


16 posted on 12/31/2009 4:30:35 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey, Nation Boy, wait ‘til the next decade you get an 8 year dose of President Palin!


17 posted on 12/31/2009 4:30:37 AM PST by matt1234
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liberals always accuse everyone else of the crimes they have committed or are about to commit.


18 posted on 12/31/2009 4:31:53 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Screw the polar bears. What have polar bears ever done for me?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Welcome to post-partisan America! /s


19 posted on 12/31/2009 4:32:07 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
when the United States Supreme Court intervened to stop a complete recount of the votes in Florida

More lib lies. Gore only wanted a partial recount of a few selective districts. Bush sued to say if there was to be a recount, then the whole state should be recounted. The Supreme Court intervened to stop Gores selective recount.

20 posted on 12/31/2009 4:32:30 AM PST by TheCipher
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