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.
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The catch is that our secular calendar is an extension of the church calendar. While people argue whether or not they got 1 A.D. in the right place (let alone the debate over what date ought to count as Christmas) it is clear that a zero year was never intended and historians honor that convention. The year after 1 B.C. was 1 A.D.
oops sorry, the connection to FR got hung up. inadvertent double post resulted.
Because they keep recounting until they do win?
To be fair, Obozo was reacting to a failed incident, whereas President Bush was reacting to a successful one.
But three hours would have been a reasonable interval - not days. You know - the three hours that his staff took to tell him about the incident to begin with?
We surely dodged a bullet...it had to be Divine Intervention.
Just helping out their headline writer.
Not really. If Gore had won his HOME state, the Florida issue would have been moot. Liberals refuse to face this fact.
Communist garbage, a filthy lying red son of a bitch ex hippie scumbag who lies for a living.
Watch out for him and give him a rash of shiite if you are unfortunate enough to happen upon him.
Gore won the District of Columbia handily.
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This statement is a manifestation of the mindset that guarantees that this nation will fight another civil war. The 'reasoning' of the speaker STRICTLY serves himself and his seperate "reality", in this case, to the point of grotesqueness.
Was it Stalin or Lenin that said, “It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.” That is why
this year we must trounce the opposition, because like you say if it is close they, the group who has no morals, will always steal enough votes to win elections. Not much difference between Democrats and muzzies is their?
God bless and a Happy New Year. 2010 pay-back is coming!
When I see the label “progressive” I always wonder “progressing towards what?” It seems the tag is almost always used by those progressing towards hell and bent on dragging the rest of the world with them as they go.
In that case (and I agree), they still have another year to wait for the decade that started with the final determination of that election to have passed.
The first civil war was not wrought with as much willful misunderstanding.
“Hey, Nation Boy, wait ‘til the next decade you get an 8 year dose of President Palin!”
From your lips to God’s ear.
You beat me to it.
There was nothing complete about that re-count.
The writer lied in the first freaking sentence.
And, weren't they all Dem precincts?
Except in the 2000 election when the newspapers kept tallying the votes until May of 2001 and came to the conclusion that Gore lost the election.
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