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Analysis: Litigation May Prolong Process Into 2001
By David S. Broder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 19, 2000; Page A1
A welter of legal possibilities combined with hardening political lines could throw the presidential contest into the new year, experts in both parties warned yesterday. Some observers said they feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern.
Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's hearing in the Florida Supreme Court, lawyers for both Vice President Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush see possibilities for further litigation that could delay the awarding of Florida's crucial 25 electoral votes. Leaders of the Florida Legislature are eyeing a possible intervention, and the dispute could come before Congress in January-just two weeks before Inauguration Day-in a challenge to the state's electoral votes.
"It's a very scary thought," Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) said yesterday, "but I'm getting a sneaky feeling in my gut that Congress may get involved in it. If impeachment was difficult, this would be far worse."
Vin Weber, a former GOP representative from Minnesota, said, "I have become an extreme pessimist. I've wondered in the last day or two if we haven't crossed an important point where it's too late for anybody to step back. I'm afraid we're committed to a course of action that will do a lot of damage to the system."
Others in both parties hold out hope that the Florida Supreme Court will resolve the situation and that its verdict will be accepted by both Gore and Bush. But all indications yesterday were that Gore strategists are interpreting public patience with the 11-day-old impasse as an indication that the recounting of votes can continue at least until the Dec. 12 deadline for selecting Florida's 25 presidential electors.
Steelheart - 1992
I seem to recall that krinton's 'triumphal' visit to India and Africa (for no other reason than to get out of Dodge) had an entourage of over 90 aircraft. Seems to me somebody ought to download the documentation and jamb them down the pants or up the @ss of any RAT b@st@rd that has a problem with kicking out the stops for a historic Republican sweep. Hey, if it's really an issue, we can always take milk from starving inner-city kids to pay for it!
Hey, those were some of Chelsea's Christmas and Summer break vacation trips! Willie had to impress Chelsea to sho her that he was a better man than her real father, Webb Hubbell!
Let's not forget his little tryst to Thailand in the mid 90's. He got laid on our dime.
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